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		azinman2 on Feb 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop su... For Apple this must be a dream -- drop everything that's explicitly 32-bit. Make some compiler improvements easier, possibly drop some silicon costs, remove lots of #ifdef __LP64__, simplify the kernel, etc.

valleyer on Feb 1, 2017 [–]

Don't forget that the newest Apple Watch is 32-bit.

richardwhiuk on Feb 1, 2017 | [–]

Apple Watch (from a development perspective) runs bitcode, not armv6/armv7/armv7s.

0x0 on Feb 1, 2017 | | [–]

32bit bitcode. You can't go from LLVM bitcode to both 32bit and 64bit as far as I understand. You need "bit-specific" (architecture-specific) bitcode.

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