On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Mike Meredith wrote:
> Personally I don't see the point of running a 64-bit Firefox (or
> derivative)
I know of one person (formerly of this list) who filed a bug report with
the Vim maintainers because using auto-parallelization and a 64-bit
target broke the build under IRIX.
> Installing 32-bit binary applications can be a bit of a pain, but once
> you've loaded up all the associated 32-bit libraries, it just works.
Speaking of IRIX, it looks IRIX is going to remain the only OS that got
this right. The way Apple does it is pretty nice, too, but it's
difficult to update the 32-bit libraries and 64-bit libraries
separately:
[jp at viper:/usr/lib]$ file libc.dylib
libc.dylib: symbolic link to `libSystem.dylib'
[jp at viper:/usr/lib]$ file libSystem.dylib
libSystem.dylib: symbolic link to `libSystem.B.dylib'
[jp at viper:/usr/lib]$ file libSystem.B.dylib
libSystem.B.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures
libSystem.B.dylib (for architecture ppc): Mach-O dynamically
linked shared library ppc
libSystem.B.dylib (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit
dynamically linked shared library ppc64
libSystem.B.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically
linked shared library i386
libSystem.B.dylib (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit
dynamically linked shared library x86_64
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