Timeline for How much of 32-bit support is dropped in macOS Catalina?
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 | comment | added | OMA | "No" is not an answer for a "how much" question ;-). Even if the official stance by Apple is that 32-bit support is dropped entirely, the reality is that there is still 32-bit support inside the OS which can be enabled back by advanced users for the time being. | |
| Oct 31, 2019 at 19:29 | comment | added | Max Coplan | This should shine more light on it | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 15:19 | comment | added | alexchandel |
This answer is wrong and unhelpful. OP essentially asks 1) Does XNU still recognize 32-bit mach-O? 2) Does XNU still recognize fat binaries? 3) Does dyld still recognize 32-bit mach-O? 4) Does dyld still recognize fat binaries? 5) Is a fat libSystem still shipped in Catalina? 6) How many other fat binaries does Catalina still ship? None of these were answered.
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| Jul 31, 2019 at 10:19 | comment | added | Grishka | 32-bit apps don't work as is on an unmodified OS. There's a lot of components to 32-bit support on a 64-bit OS. The question is how much of those are removed, if any, and whether it is feasible/possible at all to restore this support by modifying the system. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 0:53 | comment | added | Thomas Nelson | @Grishka What are you talking about? There is only one side of this question, the technical side. Apps either work or they don't. What organizational side is there? | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 20:42 | comment | added | Grishka | You're talking about the organizational side of things which is what all the news are about, but the question is purely technical. | |
| Jul 18, 2019 at 1:52 | history | edited | Thomas Nelson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2019 at 1:47 | history | answered | Thomas Nelson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |