Re: 64-bit Mac OS X kernel
Re: 64-bit Mac OS X kernel
- Subject: Re: 64-bit Mac OS X kernel
- From: rohan a <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:46:19 +0530
Thanks for this.
However, why then are there 4 binary types :
x86, x86_64, ppc32 and ppc64 when the kernel itself is a 32-bit.
Will it be able to take advantage of the other 32-bits ?
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jean-Daniel
Dupas<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Le 19 août 2009 à 11:53, rohan a a écrit :
>
>> Hi All,
>> Does Mac OS X 10.5 provide separate 32-bit and 64-bit kernels
>> ?Or there is only one type of kernel supported.
>>
>> What I mean is that like Windows has separate version x86, x86_64, IA
>> is there something like this for Mac OS X 10.5 as well ?
>>
>> If not are there only 2 version:
>> Intel i386 and PowerPC ?
>>
>> and does the same thing run on 32-bit and 64-bit hardware ?
>
> Most (if not all) of the answers are in the 64 bit Transition Guide and in
> The Universal Binary programming Guide.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/64bitPorting/intro/intro.html
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary_intro/universal_binary_intro.html
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