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[Iain Sandoe]

Hi James

> On 31 Jul 2025, at 21:22, James K. Lowden <jklowden@cobolworx.com> wrote:
> 

> 3.  The last 32-bit Apple machine was manufactured in 2006, before Taylor Swift was famous, when we still knew where Jim Gray was.  

I agree with Jakub that there’s no specific reason to single out 32b Darwin, there are plenty of other 32b hosts -  (it’s just that I bothered to try testing it there and reported issues?).

However - let’s straighten out the comment above - the last macOS system supporting 32bit applications was 10.14 with the last release July 2021.  I know that there are serious vendors out there building for 10.13 (last released Nov 2020), so I continue to test GCC on that version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

Iain