<div dir="ltr">Oh, they changed that finally. I admit I hadn't looked at it on 10.11 (I only recently upgraded the Mac from 10.9). It doesn't even mention ppc any more.<div><br></div><div>Maybe Apple's getting the idea that the main thing they'd accomplished was to confuse developers.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:46 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Friday May 13 2016 10:11:50 Brandon Allbery wrote:<br>
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> Remember that OS X goes to great lengths to hide 32 vs. 64 bit<br>
> distinctions; 32 bit OS X kernels were perfectly capable of running 64 bit<br>
> binaries on 64-bit CPUs, at least on Intel. So some of this comes down to<br>
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</span>True.<br>
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> "Apple so decreed and it's much easier to play along than to try to make OS<br>
> X act differently". In particular, see how arch(1) works.<br>
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</span>According to `man arch`:<br>
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i386 32-bit intel<br>
x86_64 64-bit intel<br>
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which seems perfectly standard (though amd64 would probably have been more accurate than x86_64)<br>
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I don't see anywhere though that i386 can also be interpreted as "32-bit or 64-bit (or whatever) Intel". That's what I find confusing, not that the 32-bit codeword refers back to the i386 CPU and the 64-bit codeword tries its best to avoid using the name of a non-Intel CPU ;)<br>
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