32-bit JVM

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

I think it's a case that more people in the community need to be
willing to help support the 32-bit Mac OS X builds for the long haul.
Henri is obviously supportive :-) - Heinz, I'm not sure you'd have the
time to commit to this as well? There probably needs to be a small
group of folks for that port to be well-maintained.

The sad reality is that 32-bit Mac is dying out, perhaps there are
specific mailing lists/communities that you can reach out to?

Cheers,
Martijn

On 22 October 2012 09:01, Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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