Talk:Universal binary

message: This should be merged with Fat binary. The term "universal binary" appears to be an Apple-ism. Dysprosia 06:10, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree; this is to give information on a specific type of fat binary; the terms are not synonyms. Eg the line "Apple's Xcode 2.1 supports the creation of these files" refers only to Intel/PPC Fat Binaries for Mac OSX, it could not for instance create an Intel/Alpha Fat Binary for Windows NT. Therefore I think this page still has relevence. MrWeeble Talk Brit tv 12:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
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message: From looking at Apple's website, it is clear Universal in the sense of a Universal binary (or the Universal version of an application) is supposed to be capitalized.  See Apple - Universal - Applications and Intel-based Mac: How to tell if an application is Universal for examples. —204.42.20.215 22:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization of Universal in Universal binary: Apple's convention 

message: "If they are compiled and optimized for platforms as different as x86 and PowerPC, what binary code could they be sharing?"
applications do not consist only of compiled code, but generally include a number of non-executable resources such as bitmaps, audio files, text and data files, and in the case of games, huge amounts of texture, map, and model data. the claim you're responding to -- that multi-platform applications will usually share a significant amount of dependent data among platforms -- is completely reasonable. --G0zer 18:09, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shared code? 

message: It would be good if this page had more information about how stuff is compiled as a Universal Binary and what compilers support it.
:What do you mean, what compilers support it? I believe it uses gcc to compile both ends, and uses a tool to join the Intel-only and the PowerPC-only code into one binary.  As for what languages, XCode only come with C, C++, and Objective-C.  There is a third-party addon for Fortran, but I don't know if it makes Universal Binaries. Madd the sane 05:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compiler Stuff 

message: Some applications like Xslimmer can reduce the size of universal binaries by stripping either PPC or Intel code from the binary. Do you think it is relevant to include a section/paragraph/sentence to this article? 
Jonathan2007 20:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, a small section would probably be a good idea. Madd the sane 05:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reducing size of univeral binaries 

message: I've created an SVG version of the universal binary logo (the cool yin-yang kind of thing shown here: http://www.apple.com/universal/.) ... but I'm not into the whole licensing thing with copyrights and such.
In fact, I barely knew how to post to this discussion board. Ha ha. All I know is that SVG is pretty much everywhere on Wikipedia, and I was bored one day so I made it using Inkscape.
So if anyone's interested in work with me on that, just post a reply or something, I'll check this discussion board every week or so.
Thanks for your help guys/girls. 66.130.16.181 (talk) 04:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with logo 

message: It's 2010, aren't people dropping PPC now?  I added the update tag because of this. Gigs (talk) 05:02, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Mozilla, for one, "switched from a ppc/i386 universal binary to an i386/x86_64 universal binary" in Firefox 4. I couldn't find official documentation from Apple that this new type of fat binary can also be called Universal, but some people call it that. --asqueella (talk) 13:44, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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message: Mac And Windows And Universal Mkennedy00abc (talk) 04:26, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: And your point is? Guy Harris (talk) 05:57, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal 

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replies: text: They seem to work. Guy Harris (talk) 20:51, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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message: Hi,
as the article is written it sounds like it is something that was used way in the past as apple switched from ppc to x86 based architectures, but it is the same principle used now where arm and x86 based system with apple-software are used at the same time. Here an example output of the file tool of such a binary...
:/tmp/[...].app/Contents/MacOS$ file *
[...]: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit x86_64 executable, flags:<NOUNDEFS|DYLDLINK|TWOLEVEL|PIE>] [arm64:Mach-O 64-bit arm64 executable, flags:<NOUNDEFS|DYLDLINK|TWOLEVEL|PIE>]
 89.246.192.145 (talk) 17:41, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The first paragraph of the article mentions ARM64, and there's a "Universal 2" section.  What parts imply this is only for PPC/x86 binaries? Guy Harris (talk) 21:56, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  article sounds like a methode used in history