Re: check that 64 bit compiler is installed properly on solaris 10
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Eric Sosman wrote:
Assuming you mean "64-bit JVM" instead of "64-bit compiler"
(if such a thing exists, I've not heard of it),
The compiler output (the byte code) is identical on 32, 64 and 77
bit computers.
It is WORA not WORA(n bit).
Yes: There is only one class file format, and all JVM
implementations of whatever bit-ness digest it. But it's
conceivable, just barely, that somebody might write a Java
source so huge and intricate that javac running on a 32-bit
JVM would run out of memory trying to compile it. If so,
then somebody somewhere might have hacked up a javac that
runs on a 64-bit JVM, and that might justifiably be called
a "64-bit Java compiler."
(All right, it's a stretch that would shame Elastic Man.
But after many years of being forced to eat my words, I've
grown timid about saying "I have never seen an X, therefore
no X exists." Safer to replace the comma with a full stop
and strike all that follows ...)
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Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid