32 bit version of MacOSX Port (OpenJDK)

[Henri Gomez]

> Hi,
>
> Do we know *yet* whether or not there will be a 32 bit version of the
> OpenJDK MacOSX Port ?
>
> We would need to know as business decisions on present capability may be
> impacted.
>
> Thanks to anyone in the know.

Happy to see someone else wondering about a 32bits version of OpenJDK for OSX.
For now, there is just no support for 32 bits or Universal mode
version of OpenJDK in project.

I back ported some old macosx-port patches to reintroduce Universal
mode in OpenJDK 7u :

http://openjdk-osx-build.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/patches-jdk7u-osx/universal-build.patch

I asked for an official review and Scott say it was ok but there is
still no decision from OpenJDK management to apply them.

You should know there is SIGSEVG problems with Universal (32/64) bits
OpenJDK released with such patch on
http://openjdk-osx-build.googlecode.com/,  problems reported here but
without any reply yet. -d32 works in client mode but crash in server
mode.

This one should be fixed before considering using OpenJDK 7 universal
for you own usage and why not have universal mode reintroduce into
OpenJDK 7u/8 forests.