32-bit JVM

[Henri Gomez]

There will be no 32bits version of OpenJDK for OSX.
It was discussed many time on this mailing list.

I provided patches to restore universal build (32/64bits) and raised
problems I encountered while using such 32bits non official JVM but
nobody was interested to investigate.

Java 7 and more on OSX will be 64bits only.

2012/10/22 Dr Heinz M. Kabutz <heinz at javaspecialists.eu>:
> A few months ago, we had a discussion about providing a JDK 7 for the Mac
> that can also operate in 32-bit mode.  Someone enabled it and it then got
> disabled again, because it apparently broke something.
>
> Is there any chance to enable it again?  Being able to operate in 32-bit and
> also -client mode is quite important in order to be able to test concurrency
> code using different JVMs.  I still have the JDK that we built with this
> enabled and it works fine, but ideally I would like this to be supported by
> the latest JDK 1.7.
>
> Regards
>
> Heinz
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