[GEM-dev] gem 64-bit?

[chris clepper]

There is no 64 bit Carbon support at all.  Apple killed it years ago.

All of the window management and Quicktime code is Carbon.  The rewrite for
Cocoa and 64 bit would be hundreds if not thousands of hours of work.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

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> There seems to be some 64-bit support for Carbon, considering the Carbon
> framework is shipped as 64-bit in 10.5.  I know that Carbon is basically
> deprecated, but IIRC, some parts of it are 64-bit. Which parts rely on
> Carbon?
>
> file /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Carbon
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Carbon: Mach-O universal binary
> with 4 architectures
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Carbon (for architecture
> ppc7400): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Carbon (for architecture
> ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library ppc64
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Carbon (for architecture i386): Mach-O
> dynamically linked shared library i386
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Carbon (for architecture
> x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
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> .hc
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> On Oct 7, 2009, at 8:18 AM, chris clepper wrote:
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> GEM uses Carbon which is not 64 bit.  Most apps (Photoshop, ProTools, etc)
> on OSX have no path to 64 bit without a nearly complete rewrite.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
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>>
>> Why not?
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>> .hc
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>> On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:54 PM, chris clepper wrote:
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>> It never will be 64 bit on OSX.
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>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
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>>> For this upcoming Pd-extended 0.42 release, we should start releasing
>>> 64-bit builds.  Is Gem in 64-bit ready for prime time?
>>>
>>> .hc
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