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 15:55:10 +0530
I was mainly asking this from an application testing perspective.
Hence, wanted to know whether there are different installation images
available for 32-bit and 64-bit OS.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:46 PM, rohan a<email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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