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Re: How smart is Rosetta?



On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:06:34, Ben Weiss <email@hidden> wrote:

Concerning detecting Rosetta:

> This is not the recommended way; for a better way, see http://
> developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/
> universal_binary_exec_a/chapter_7_section_7.html
> 
> The sample code is a little more elaborate than necessary because
> it's designed around the idea of testing any PID to see if it's
> running in Rosetta, not just your own PID. In listing A-4, change
> sysctlbyname_with_pid to a plain sysctlbyname to simplify it. Or if
> you don't mind either way, just copy all the code and pass a PID of 0.

Shouldn't gestaltNativeCPUfamily or gestaltNativeCPUfamily selectors
be used to detect if application is running under Rosetta?
E.g. gestaltProcessorType gives 'PPC' and gestaltNativeCPUfamily
gives 'i86'. Just an idea, I didn't test that.

Mike

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