Considering there's quite some code relying on `Smalltalk platformName =
'Win32'`, I'm certain the Windows 64bit VM also returns `Win32`. We might
want to clean this up, but it will be hard to provide backward
compatibility. In 64bit GraalSqueak, we also return 'Win32' (see [1])

Fabio

[1]
https://github.com/hpi-swa/graalsqueak/blob/9ce025f5f891a6369881551897e39a604cd6e617/src/de.hpi.swa.graal.squeak/src/de/hpi/swa/graal/squeak/util/OSDetector.java#L37

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:18 AM John Pfersich via Squeak-dev <
squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:

> I dunno, my Squeak download says its 64 bit, but Smalltalk platformName
> answers Win32 still; isn’t the 64 bit exe still experimental?
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> On Oct 21, 2019, at 18:10, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> I was trying to find out all possible values of this message.  Browsing
> senders reveals a need to factor this out into a first-class SqueakPlatform
> -- we have way too many places which employ switch statements to determine
> what to do:
>
>     Smalltalk platformName = "Mac OS"
>        ifTrue:
>           [ #('/System/Library/Fonts' '/Library/Fonts') do: [:fontDir |
> aBlock value: fontDir]. ]
>
> Others check for "Win32", I'm not sure what #platformName is answering on
> 64-bit VM on Windows these days, could someone running Windows please tell
> me?
>
> Still others check for "Risc OS" or "unix".  So, the full list I have so
> far is:
>
>     unix
>     Win32
>     Mac OS
>     Risc OS
>
> If you know of any others, please let me know.
>
>  - Chris
>
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