+1 to what Mike said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard
> Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) was the last release of Mac OS X to support the > 32-bit Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo CPUs. Steven would have more info on 32-bit plugins on a 64-bit host, as I'm not sure any of the 32-bit binary/library slices are ever loaded on a 64-bit machine (could definitely be wrong though). -Alex On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Mike Hommey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:23:43AM +0100, Mark Banner wrote: >> On 19/07/2012 21:38, Alex Keybl wrote: >>> Thanks to everyone who joined this discussion. We've now moved >>> forward with disabling OS X 10.5 support for FF17 in [1]. Per >>> discussion here, we will strive to leave code in place through the 17 >>> cycle, but if it becomes difficult to accomplish necessary work, we >>> may end up breaking things to advance our goals for supported Mac >>> versions. >> >> Will we also be stopping the universal binaries? AIUI the 32 bit >> part was only kept around for the 10.5 support, and running 32 bit >> on 10.6 is unsupported. >> >> Hence I don't think we need the 32 bit part any more? > > There are two things for which 32-bit is required: 32-bits-only Mac > (they exist, and they run 10.6 just fine ; not sure about 10.7), and > 32-bits plugins on 64-bits hosts. I doubt we can drop universal binaries > just yet. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
