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.
Regards,
Malcolm
On 01 Feb, 2011,at 12:10 PM, John Meacham
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?
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.
mc
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