I remember somebody telling me it was, but it was years ago and I'm probably
remembering it wrong. Fair enough though; I got told on that one 😶
I'm standing by the principle - it shouldn't matter if you're running in a
simulator or not. Use a compile flag if you must know, but in general I
disagree with a compiler flag for determining the runtime platform for two
platforms with the same API and triple.
Karl
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> On Jul 11, 2016 at 11:26 PM, <Greg Parker (mailto:gpar...@apple.com)> wrote:
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> > On Jul 11, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Karl Wagner via swift-dev
> > <swift-dev@swift.org (mailto:swift-dev@swift.org)> wrote:
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> > - Also don't like the simulator condition variable. The iOS simulator is
> > literally x86 iOS. If there was an x86 iPhone, theoretically your binaries
> > would be compatible. The fact that it runs on a simulator instead of a real
> > device is not such a vital distinction (or shouldn't be) that we need
> > integrate it in the language. What would we do in the future if there ever
> > was a real x86 iOS target?
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> The iOS simulator is not literally x86 iOS. It has changed ABI in
> incompatible ways in the past and reserves the right to do so in the future.
> Any real x86 iOS would have a real ABI which would likely differ from today's
> simulator.
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> Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com (mailto:gpar...@apple.com)
> Runtime Wrangler
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