graal and jdk8

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

Vasanth,

We are not aware of any architectural problems that might prevent Graal from running on a JDK8 host VM. Could you please give more details on your setup and error message? We will resolve any incompatibilities with JDK8 asap.

Thanks, thomas

On Feb 13, 2013, at 9:03 AM, "Venkatachalam, Vasanth" <Vasanth.Venkatachalam at amd.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that I had to use a JDK7 VM to build Graal.
> I wasn't able to build it with JDK8. Is there a workaround for this, or does Graal require a JDK7 host VM?
> 
> If Graal only supports JDK7, are there plans to make it compatible with JDK8?
> We're looking to leverage Graal for the Sumatra project (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sumatra/)
> This work requires being able to compile JDK8 lambda constructs for the GPU.
> 
> Vasanth