fastdebug vs jvmg

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Thu Dec 6 10:07:52 PST 2012


On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:

> What was dropped was the generation and use of binaries with the
> "_g" suffix, e.g., java_g, libjvm_g.so, etc. HotSpot did bring that
> back for a while in a limited form and it is about to go away again:
> 
>    7153050 remove crufty '_g' support from HotSpot repo
> 
> Ron Durbin is putting the finishes touches on his fix for 7153050.

If anyone brings back these _g names again, I'll bring out my bloody bat
   http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/archive/2006/02/the_bloody_bat.html

So, thank you Ron and everyone that ripped this crap out again. Having different names for
libraries and executables is a nightmare.

-kto




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