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Re: [Moderator] EOT Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel
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Re: [Moderator] EOT Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel


  • Subject: Re: [Moderator] EOT Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel
  • From: Nicko van Someren <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:07:21 +0100

On 6 Jun 2005, at 20:54, mmalcolm crawford wrote:

On Jun 6, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Nicko van Someren wrote:

Discussion of rumours such as this is not appropriate for this list.

How about discussion of the implications of having to build apps with fat binaries?
For most Cocoa development, I suspect that there will be very little to say. Cocoa and its ancestors have run on several platforms in the past, and there has typically -- as suggested in the keynote -- been little more to do than simply check the appropriate box.

For those concerned about endian issues, there are already functions both to discover the endian-ness of the host, and to do appropriate byte-swapping -- see, for example, NSHostByteOrder, NSSwapBigDoubleToHost. etc.:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ Foundation/ObjC_classic/Functions/FoundationFunctions.html>

Beyond that, there should be little for developers working at the level of abstraction of the Cocoa APIs to be concerned about...

Thanks for the pointer. I also notice that Apple have posted a very comprehensive document which probably covers most areas of concern for Cocoa programmers at: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/ MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary.pdf


    Cheers,
        Nicko

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 >NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel (From: Raffael Cavallaro <email@hidden>)
 >[Moderator] EOT Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel (From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [Moderator] EOT Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel (From: Nicko van Someren <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [Moderator] EOT Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel (From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>)

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