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by jibberia 4253 days ago
Ah, it finally happened. My company has a legacy-ish SDK that all our products are built on, and because of bad decisions in the past (like extensive use of C macros) it essentially cannot be ported to 64-bit. Luckily we're already building the replacement, but this is going to accelerate the requirement of having to migrate data from the old system to the new one.
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At least it sounds like this only applies to new apps, not apps updates for apps that are already published. It would be great to get clarification on that though.
Yes -- the language is ambiguous.
According to a post in https://devforums.apple.com/message/1062807#1062807 this applies to app updates as well.
Is there some problem with macros in the new SDK? Or is it that your macros are specific about word size?
The latter.