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Does macOS have anything like the FreeBSD macro _FreeBSD_version? That's a macro that gets bumped whenever kernel interfaces change, see https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/versions/

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Not in the same way.

In general our KPIs are meant to be [1] both source compatible, as we evolve the SDK, and binary compatible, as we evolve macOS. Thus there’s not a call of call for such a version macro.

What behaviour are you expecting to change based on this macro? Because there are probably better ways to handle such things on macOS.

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let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

[1] To be clear, we don’t always achieve this goal )-:

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Not in the same way.

In general our KPIs are meant to be [1] both source compatible, as we evolve the SDK, and binary compatible, as we evolve macOS. Thus there’s not a call of call for such a version macro.

What behaviour are you expecting to change based on this macro? Because there are probably better ways to handle such things on macOS.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

[1] To be clear, we don’t always achieve this goal )-:

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