Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package
Matthew Johnson writes:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
> >>> libswt-gtk-3.2-java32
> >>> libswt-gtk-3.2-java64
> >>> libswt-gtk-3.2-java
> >>>
> >>> Any other suggestions, or completely different approaches?
>
> This seems like a really bad solution.
>
> > The package is architecture independent except for the
> > register/address size.
>
> How come it depends on this and is not architecture-dependent in
> another way? this seems really strange. If it's all bytecode there
> should be no dependency, and if there are native libraries it
> surely needs to be arch-dependent for other things.
It is all bytecode. There is a wordlength dependency because the
shortest Java integer type that will fit an address is used.
Andrew.
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