ppc64 on OS X - Re: compile error on mac ppc box

[Toby Thain]

On 03/04/13 3:41 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to mention that the current ppc-aix  code is 64-bit only.
> Unfortunately I'm not familiar at all with Mac/PPC and I don't know if
> it supports 64-bit PPC binaries. If it does I think it should be

Mac G5 is 64 bit and OS X supports this architecture. If that's what you 
mean.

--Toby


> possible to combine our port with the bits from the MacOS port to get
> C2-JIT support on Mac/PPC. If not it would be a considerable effort to
> implement 32-bit PPC support for the ppc-aix port and we don't plan to
> do that.
>
> We've just lifted the JDK7 version of the ppc-aix port to hsx24 (with
> the new JSR292 implementation) and it builds and runs fairly well on
> Linux and AIX (if not please let me know:).
>
> For the next month will now concentrate on JDK8 (we already have a
> running hsx25 for PPC64 but still have to do all the other
> class-library, build, etc.. stuff).
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>