From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst@google.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 2c74924: * etc/MACHINES: Document that we support AArch64 with macOS.
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:56:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBdDv3sB0jAoZBUH@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvim7coj94.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 05:06:44PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Officially, yes, but some people apparently manage to run 10.6 on
> > powerPC. I don't know if we really need to specify that, though, given
> > that it's almost certainly a tiny subset of a tiny subset of people
> > running macOS, and they can't reasonably be expecting official support
> > for their project.
>
> Interesting. Makes me wonder, tho: why would Emacs not work on such
> a system? I understand that with the old unexec there was a good chance
> that it wouldn't work without explicit work on our part, but the "p" of
> "pdump" should avoid those problems ;-)
Yeah, I was thinking that. I can't think of any reason it wouldn't
work with the exception of some NS specific image format code (PBM or
something?) where I think we recently switched from big-endian to
little-endian. But given it took us years to notice that was broken, I
can't see it causing any problems. :)
--
Alan Third
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2021-01-31 20:25 ` master 2c74924: * etc/MACHINES: Document that we support AArch64 with macOS Stefan Monnier
2021-01-31 20:37 ` Alan Third
2021-01-31 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-31 23:56 ` Alan Third [this message]
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