Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jun 2007 15:58 UTC, submitted by Jeremy Fox
Carbon will not be 64bit in Leopard. "At last year's keynote, Apple had claimed that both Carbon and Cocoa would be 64-bit, adding to the 64-bit fundamentals that Tiger had laid. However, according to the latest on Apple's website, Leopard's 64-bit frameworks will include the POSIX and math libraries found in Tiger, Cocoa, Quartz, OpenGL, and X11 GUI framework. In addition, Apple confirms that Carbon will not be 64-bit on the Carbon Developer mailing list." In addition, the readme file included with Leopard's developer preview says G3 support will be dropped from Leopard.
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Lastly, and I may be wrong on this but, aren't most Apple programs written for the PPC architecture, written for the G3?
I'm sure about 'written', but logically they have to be compiled into G3-compatible machine code or else they wouldn't run on your G3. I think.
I don't have an Apple system, so I'm speculating: does the OS installer select different binaries and/or libraries depending on what level of PPC you have? Or if I had a G5 I'd still be running G3 code, and making it difficult to use the extra features of the G5?