Re: check that 64 bit compiler is installed properly on solaris 10

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:09:34 -0700
Message-ID:
<YSmtk.8723$cn7.1587@flpi145.ffdc.sbc.com>
Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

... 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.


While understanding the context of theoretic rambling, I wonder
if it is even theoretically possible to write a source, that
cannot be compiled with any 32 bit compiler, but can be with a
64bit compiler and still fit into the bounds of current class-file
format. (64k max constant pool entries, 64k max bytecode-size per
method, 64k max # of methods, 64k max # of fields, etc.)

Ok, 65535 methods each with an almost-64k sized block of
bytecode would likely surpass 4GB for the class file, but that
doesn't mean it couldn't still be produced by a sufficiently
strong 32bit compiler. (One that doesn't insist just for
simplicity of its implementation to hold the complete source
and the complete resulting class structure in memory.)


Who cares about the compiler.

What about the poor bastard that has to maintain that source
code file ?


Really, it's a simple application, only 10 classes ....

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