Haskell: Deprecation of 32-bit Darwin and Windows platforms

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Deprecation of 32-bit Darwin and Windows platforms

Hécate - 2024-06-13

In the continuous effort to reduce the burden on GHC developers, some house cleaning has been done to delete dead code from GHC, and in particular: the code generation and runtime logic used by 32-bit macOS/iOS and Windows.

At the time of writing, binary distributions for 32-bit macOS/iOS and Windows have not been provided by either the GHC release engineering team or GHCup maintainers for years. The relevant code paths are completely untested in GHC CI pipelines.

In 2018, Apple communicated that starting from iOS 11 and macOS 10.15, 32-bit applications support was being phased out. As a result “macOS Mojave would be the last version of macOS to run 32-bit apps. Starting wit...

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