Re: [B2-devel] [PATCH] International text clipboard patch for Basilisk II and SheepShaver

[Robert M. <mr...@gm...>]

On 7/4/12, Charles Srstka <bas...@ch...> wrote:
> On Jul 4, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Robert Munafo wrote:
>> Isn't this change going to affect 32-bit builds? You do not mention
>> doing any test for 32-bit at compile time, and you'd need to do that.
>
> Right now, there are two versions of the clipboard code — one source file
> that gets included for 32-bit builds, and one that gets included for 64-bit
> builds. All the changes in that patch were to the 64-bit source file only,
> and thus shouldn’t have any effect one way or another on 32-bit builds, so
> really the only thing that should break is trying to run the 64-bit version
> on Leopard (does anyone actually try to do that?).

Oh, okay, great! I think it's totally okay for users of old OS's like
Tiger to be using the 32-bit version of SheepShaver. (I did
benchmarks, and there is less than a 1% difference in speed.) Leopard
is kinda old by today's standards too, and I think most Leopard users
would go to Snow Leopard. But Tiger to Leopard is a bigger leap,
because more stuff got moved or changed.

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