<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To make it clear. Leopard (released October 2007) fully supports x86_64 executables. Given upgrade rate of Mac community I think it's pretty safe to state that majority of mac owners have x86-64 capable systems.<div><br></div><div>pavel</div><div><br><div><div><div>On 01.02.2011, at 15:30, malcolm.wallace wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>MacOS 10.5 is still largely 32-bit. MacOS 10.6 is largely 64-bit. Both are capable of compiling and running for the alternative word-size choice, fairly transparently. 10.6 was released August 2009, but there are likely plenty of people still running 10.5.</div><div><pre style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px" _mce_style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Regards,
Malcolm</pre></div><div><br>On 01 Feb, 2011,at 12:10 PM, John Meacham <<a href="mailto:john@repetae.net">john@repetae.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch">Even though the hardware is x86_64, I thought the vast majority of<br>
macs used a 32 bit build of OSX and 32 bit programs?<br>
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John<br>
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Max Cantor <<a href="mailto:mxcantor@gmail.com" _mce_href="mailto:mxcantor@gmail.com">mxcantor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The last 32-bit, Intel Mac was the Mac Mini, discontinued in August 2007. The bulk of them were discontinued in 2006, along with PowerPC Macs. Does it make sense to relegate OSX x86_64 to community status while the 32-bit version is considered a supported platform?<br>
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> Given that I'm far from experienced enough to be able to contribute meaningfully to GHC, I'm not complaining about anyone's efforts, just that those efforts might be a bit misallocated. I'd venture a guess that far more people are interested in running 64-bit GHC on OSX than in running GHC on what is now fairly antiquated hardware.<br>
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