Hotspot on PPC

[Gary Benson]

Cool.  Thanks for your help, and have a good weekend!

Gary

Paul Hohensee:
> 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