Hotspot on PPC

[Paul Hohensee - Java SE]

The C++ interpreter hasn't been used for any platform but ia64.

No, we've no plans to drop PPC support.  We sell the it for use in
embedded environments.  If there's enough market demand we'd likely
roll the port forward to jdk7 (which mostly == openjdk).

Paul

Gary Benson wrote:
> Paul Hohensee - Java SE wrote:
>   
>> CC_INTERP must be set to build the C++ interpreter, but you also
>> need some machine-dependent assembly code glue to make it work.  We
>> haven't open sourced the latter since we don't support the former.
>>     
>
> Fair enough.
>
>   
>> You can build a vm without the compilers.  Use one of the 'core'
>> targets like 'productcore'.
>>     
>
> I was just reading that in hotspot/build/linux/Makefile ;)
>  
>   
>> We supported ia64 in 1.4.2, but dropped it in 5.0, so yes, we have
>> old ia64 sources.
>>     
>
> Ok, I understand a bit better now.  Has the C++ interpreter been used
> in anger since then?
>
>   
>> correct ia64 assembly is 'interesting' to write.
>>     
>
> So I've heard :)
>
>   
>> I'm not aware of any plans to open source the PPC 5.0 port.
>>     
>
> Ok.  Does the fact that it's only 5.0 mean you've dropped PPC?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>