From 957581b4b753ef416a0318e0f0c1692328625c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aiden Fox Ivey <aiden@fox-ivey.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:36:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] gh-114490: Add check for Mach-O linkage in Lib/platform.py
 (#114491)

``platform.architecture()`` now returns the format of binaries (e.g. Mach-O) instead of the default empty string.

Co-authored-by: AN Long <aisk@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Lib/platform.py                                                 | 2 ++
 .../next/macOS/2024-01-23-11-35-26.gh-issue-114490.FrQOQ0.rst   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2024-01-23-11-35-26.gh-issue-114490.FrQOQ0.rst

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 75aa55510858fd4..b56472235ee9e42 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -752,6 +752,8 @@ def architecture(executable=sys.executable, bits='', linkage=''):
     # Linkage
     if 'ELF' in fileout:
         linkage = 'ELF'
+    elif 'Mach-O' in fileout:
+        linkage = "Mach-O"
     elif 'PE' in fileout:
         # E.g. Windows uses this format
         if 'Windows' in fileout:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2024-01-23-11-35-26.gh-issue-114490.FrQOQ0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2024-01-23-11-35-26.gh-issue-114490.FrQOQ0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..abd296f86085180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2024-01-23-11-35-26.gh-issue-114490.FrQOQ0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add Mach-O linkage support for :func:`platform.architecture()`.