5 Mar
2006
5 Mar
'06
12:14 a.m.
On 4-Mar-06, at 3:33 PM, Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote:
I don't have MacOS X Intel handy to verify, but I was under the impression that Rosetta was only automagically invoked by the operating system on application bundles. However, there is a dearth of information regarding this point on the web, so I could be wrong.
Fortunately, you are :-). It's automagically invoked by the kernel's executable loader whenever any Mach-O binary is loaded that only has ppc code. You're right about the lack of (easily available) information though. A friend of mine was at the conference when they announced the switch, so I just asked him to try it out; I have found no place on the web that spells it out. Cheers, Wolfgang