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A foundational Haxe framework for cross-platform development
https://lime.openfl.org/
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Make x86 target flags more specific #1819

Closed tobil4sk closed 1 month ago

tobil4sk commented 1 month ago

As discussed in #1813, -64 and -32 are currently used in a lot of places to mean x86_64 and x86_32 respectively. Now that arm64 systems are widespread (and 8.2.0-Dev has arm64 Mac support), which is also a 64 bit architecture, it would be better to have more specific flags that are specifically for x86 architectures.

It looks like the ios target already uses the i386 flag: https://github.com/openfl/lime/blob/ca52db81efa10b1bd8c76e43c714faa9dbbc4c94/src/lime/tools/IOSHelper.hx#L124

joshtynjala commented 1 month ago

Interesting background here on x86, i386, and IA-32, which all can refer to 32-bit Intel architecture processors: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/489145/why-do-linux-world-use-the-term-i386-instead-of-x86

Similarly, 64-bit Intel/AMD can be x86_64, x64, AMD64, and Intel 64 (but not IA-64, which was used for Intel Itanium instead).