Dropping 32-bit support (was Branches)

[James Melvin]

One caveat...

For the JVM, we've preserved 32/64-bit universal builds. Currently, the
JVM universal build only includes 64-bit support. Additionally including
32-bit requires 3 Makefile uncomments. However, there may likely be
additional work on the JDK side to fully support the same.

- Jim




On 2/21/12 5:21 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:
>
>> Another question for you guys about OSX.
>>
>> 32 bits support as been removed some weeks ago without further notice
>> on OSX version.
>>
>> * Why such decision ?
>>
>> * How could we bring back 32 bits support, especially -d32 support ?
>>
>> * Where is the correct location to enter a bug report on this
>> (bugreport.sun.com ?)
>
> Dalibor&  Mark,
>
> Henri raises some good points here, since the ability to build OpenJDK 32/64 Universal was lost in the merge from the macosx-port repository to the jdk7u-osx repository with no public discussion.
>
> I thought the ability to build 32/64 Universal was preserved, and Oracle was simply going to support 64-bit only in it's proprietary builds.
>
> What is the best path to fixing this?
>
> Mike Swingler
> Apple Inc.
>