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Re:Show HN: TinyClock – a tiny true 5-arch universal Mac OS ... by geraldcombs on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:14PM (#32755155)
Mach-O[1], the executable file format used by macOS and iOS (and other NeXTSTEP descendants) supports stuffing code segments for multiple architectures in the same file, aka "fat binaries"[2]. This is a fat binary that supports 5 architectures.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_binary

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