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#
# It is useful to share the same aforementioned configuration files and
# avoids duplicating them in case of tightly related platforms.
+#
+# An example are the platforms supported by Xcode (macOS, iOS, tvOS,
+# and watchOS). For all of those the CMAKE_EFFECTIVE_SYSTEM_NAME is
+# set to Apple which results in using
+# Platfom/Apple-AppleClang-CXX.cmake for the Apple C++ compiler.
set(CMAKE_EFFECTIVE_SYSTEM_NAME "${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}")
include(Platform/${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}-Initialize OPTIONAL)