jdk7u-osx, VM mode

[Mike Swingler]

On Dec 7, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

> On 12/7/11 5:45 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:10 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/7/11 2:21 AM, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Is hotspot now 64bit only on all platforms?
>>> 
>>> No. See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/config-417990.html for 
>>> a list of Oracle JRE 7 and JDK 7 Certified System Configurations.
>> 
>> While I'd be among the first to support dropping 32-bit support for a variety of reasons, could you share the reasoning behind the decision with the community?
> 
> I'm not sure I follow - which decision?

To make the Mac OS X 7uX builds x86_64 only. Previously they were i386/x86_64 universal binaries in the macosx-port repository.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Apple Inc.