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Macintosh gestalt function

Syntax

Description

gestaltbits = gestalt('selector') passes the four-character string selector to the Macintosh Operating System function gestalt. For details about gestalt, refer to Chapter 1 of Inside Macintosh: Operating System Utilities.

The result, a 32-bit integer, is stored bitwise in gestaltbits. Thus, the least significant bit of the result is gestaltbits(32), while the most significant bit is gestaltbits(1).

Example

After executing:

gestaltbits(32) will be 1 if run from a 680x0-based Macintosh, while
gestaltbits(31) will be 1 if run from a PowerPC-based Macintosh.


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