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Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
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Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications


  • Subject: Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
  • From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:33:05 -0400

Mo McRoberts wrote:

therefore break. In contrast, most other x86_64 systems tend to be set
up such that x86_64 is reported as the “system” architecture (where
the kernel architecture is pretty incidental), and so you have a
triplet of, say, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.

Where most is linux? Nobody can really even agree if its amd64 or x86_64, much less what uname is supposed to say. For example, here's FreeBSD/amd64:

% uname -a
FreeBSD thor 8.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 #0 r196400: Thu Aug 20 09:38:12 EDT 2009 gallatin@thor:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/THOR amd64
% uname -p
amd64


Once you translate amd64 to x86_64, it behaves the way you'd expect.
gcc defaults to producing 64-bit binaries.

And here is OpenSolaris i86pc:

% uname -a
SunOS dell1435a 5.11 snv_111a i86pc i386 i86pc

% uname -p
i386

On Solaris, you use an obscure command (isainfo) to tell you
what instruction set is supported:

% isainfo -n
amd64

But gcc (and sunpro) produce 32-bit binaries by default.

% touch t.c
% gcc -c t.c
% file t.o
t.o:            ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable 80386 Version 1
% gcc -m64 -c t.c
% file t.o
t.o:            ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable AMD64 Version 1

So I really don't think MacOSX is any more confusing than
anything else..

Cheers,

Drew
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