OpenJDK on Solaris Dev Express 1/2008?

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:51 -0700, Erik Trimble wrote:
> The Hotspot VM (which is (mostly) what is using the compiler), is set up 
> to build with SunStudio 11. As Kelly notes, we're (well, actually, most 
> He) is in the process of validating SS12 as a build compiler.
> 
> GCC will NOT work under Solaris/SPARC, and I'm pretty darned sure it 
> won't work under Solaris/x86 or Solaris/x64.   There are some 
> significant GCC-isms which the JDK does not currently support.

OK.

> 
> That said, it would not be terribly difficult to modify the source to 
> get GCC to work, but you'd definitely have to spend a bit of time doing so.
> 
> 
> Sadly, C compilers are not interchangeable.

Yeah, I know :-/

- twisti