Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> El sáb, 28-05-2005 a las 14:10 +0200, Alexander Fieroch escribió:
>> Javier Kohen wrote:
>>> I understand Blackdown's JDK comes with the plug-in, but as far as
>>> I know they haven't released a version 1.5 JDK yet. Meanwhile you
>>> can use Blackdown's JDK 1.4.x, a 32-bit browser in a chroot, or
>>> help them release :-)
>>
>> I know but I need jdk 1.5 and I'm wondering why sun released a
>> 64bit version of java jdk and no java plugin for browsers. It can't
>> be much difficult if there is a complete 64bit java jdk available.
>
> And I wonder why they don't admit that their JIT compiler breaks on
> this platform. There's a bug triggered by Eclipse's editor that
> makes it pretty useless to run said software. I guess (notice the
> use of the word guess) that the utmost reason is that they use GCC
> 3.2 to compile the JDK and Mozilla is usually compiled with a newer
> GCC with incompatible ABI.
No, the main reason is that Mozilla's OJI interface is not completely
64bit-safe. I've written a patch for Sun over one year ago, they
still haven't pushed it into Mozilla.
If I find some free time, I'll update the patch for current Mozilla
versions. Maybe some distributions will pick it up.
Juergen
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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://blog.blackdown.de/
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