Dropping 32-bit support (was Branches) (original) (raw)

James Melvin james.melvin at oracle.com
Tue Feb 21 14:45:58 PST 2012

One caveat...

For the JVM, we've preserved 32/64-bit universal builds. Currently, the JVM universal build only includes 64-bit support. Additionally including 32-bit requires 3 Makefile uncomments. However, there may likely be additional work on the JDK side to fully support the same.

On 2/21/12 5:21 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:

On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:

Another question for you guys about OSX.

32 bits support as been removed some weeks ago without further notice on OSX version. * Why such decision ? * How could we bring back 32 bits support, especially -d32 support ? * Where is the correct location to enter a bug report on this (bugreport.sun.com ?) Dalibor& Mark, Henri raises some good points here, since the ability to build OpenJDK 32/64 Universal was lost in the merge from the macosx-port repository to the jdk7u-osx repository with no public discussion. I thought the ability to build 32/64 Universal was preserved, and Oracle was simply going to support 64-bit only in it's proprietary builds. What is the best path to fixing this? Mike Swingler Apple Inc.

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