Java 7 for Mac OSX (original) (raw)

Andrew Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 10:38:35 PST 2012

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On Feb 20, 2012, at 3:29 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:

>> One question: >> >> By adding 32-bit support, do you mean the binary will be runnable >> on a >> 32-bit machine? Or, the sources can be built on a 32-bit machine? > > To me 32 bit support means you could use -d32 flag to have JVM > works > in a 32bit land, so safe memory in many cases. Supporting a second architecture effectively doubles the testing overhead, and basically doubles the budget you need to spend on QA. What is the benefit to Oracle Corp for supporting a legacy architecture?

On a more positive note, there's no reason it has to be Oracle who supports it. This is supposed to be a FOSS project after all; if you want something, everything is there for you to make it happen :-)

This is a serious question, Mike Swingler Apple Inc.

-- Andrew :)

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