os.arch "amd64" or "x86_64"?

[Scott Palmer]

Just letting you know that changing this would break my builds as I
use that property as part of a classifier for Maven artifacts
containing a zip of native libraries for JNI. (Including the JavaFX
runtime that we have deployed to our private repo)

Scott

On 2012-02-06, at 5:51 PM, Michael McMahon <michael.x.mcmahon at oracle.com> wrote:

> Following from the last message, I just want to get opinions on this question.
> Currently, the os.arch system property is set to "amd64" in common with the
> other platforms (solaris, windows and Linux) when running on an amd64/x86_64 CPU.
> However, the property is set to "x86_64" in Apple's Java 6 runtime.
>
> So, the question is, what/if any compatibility issues could there be, if we maintain
> this behavior? On the other hand there probably should be a good reason to change it
> so it's different from the other 64 bit platforms.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael.