On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:51 -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > The Hotspot VM (which is (mostly) what is using the compiler), is set up > to build with SunStudio 11. As Kelly notes, we're (well, actually, most > He) is in the process of validating SS12 as a build compiler. > > GCC will NOT work under Solaris/SPARC, and I'm pretty darned sure it > won't work under Solaris/x86 or Solaris/x64. There are some > significant GCC-isms which the JDK does not currently support.
OK. > > That said, it would not be terribly difficult to modify the source to > get GCC to work, but you'd definitely have to spend a bit of time doing so. > > > Sadly, C compilers are not interchangeable. Yeah, I know :-/ - twisti
