From 6a6c1f9e9d7aef0e5e6a8662ff209795a0baf7e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jake Jarvis <jake@jarv.is>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:47:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Detect ARM64 macOS running on Apple Silicon

Also distinguishes whether 64-bit Node is running because we're actually on an Intel Mac or if it's just Rosetta 2 pretending to be one.
---
 index.d.ts    | 3 +--
 index.js      | 9 +++++++--
 test/basic.js | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.d.ts b/index.d.ts
index acbce66..a2e2c1e 100644
--- a/index.d.ts
+++ b/index.d.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
-declare function arch(): 'x64' | 'x86';
+declare function arch(): 'x64' | 'x86' | 'arm64';
 
 export = arch;
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 7d90b8a..956b622 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -17,10 +17,15 @@ module.exports = function arch () {
   }
 
   /**
-   * All recent versions of Mac OS are 64-bit.
+   * On macOS, we need to detect if x64 Node is running because the CPU is truly
+   * an Intel chip, or if it's running on Apple Silicon via Rosetta 2:
+   * https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment
    */
   if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
-    return 'x64'
+    var nativeArm = process.arch === 'arm64'
+    var rosettaArm = cp.execSync('sysctl -in sysctl.proc_translated', { encoding: 'utf8' }) === '1\n'
+
+    return (nativeArm || rosettaArm) ? 'arm64' : 'x64'
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/test/basic.js b/test/basic.js
index 8d6de32..64177e4 100644
--- a/test/basic.js
+++ b/test/basic.js
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 var arch = require('../')
 var test = require('tape')
 
-test('returns x86 or x64', function (t) {
+test('returns a valid architecture', function (t) {
   var str = arch()
-  t.ok(str === 'x86' || str === 'x64')
+  t.ok(str === 'x86' || str === 'x64' || str === 'arm64')
   t.end()
 })