From c55d2bf15017f89d7afa80ace70455bfa68c774f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Fry <ben@fathom.info>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 06:44:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] a note about Apple Silicon

---
 app/src/processing/app/Platform.java | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/Platform.java b/app/src/processing/app/Platform.java
index 51ac0bab6..d46a6d533 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/Platform.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/Platform.java
@@ -210,7 +210,10 @@ public class Platform {
    * Return the value of the os.arch property
    */
   static public String getNativeArch() {
-    // This will return "arm" for 32-bit ARM, "aarch64" for 64-bit ARM (both on Linux)
+    // This will return "arm" for 32-bit ARM on Linux,
+    // and "aarch64" for 64-bit ARM on Linux (rpi) and Apple Silicon
+    // (the latter only when using a native 64-bit ARM VM on macOS,
+    // which as of 4.0 alpha 5 is not being used b/c of missing libs).
     return System.getProperty("os.arch");
   }