Fair enough, just wanted to be sure we weren't making extra work for ourselves. Well, actually extra work for you since you seem to be the one who interacts with the compiler folks the most ;).
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > From a Java point of view, there is no real difference to not support 32 bit > versions. The bug with JDK 9 are just bugs that could also have happened with > 64 bit versions. It is just easier to trigger this bug with 32 bits, but I am > almost sure the underlying bug also affect 64 bits. > > So why should we no longer support all platforms Java supports? Bitness does > not matter for our code? Should we then also no longer support Sparc, > PowerPC, or ARM platform? > -1 to add arbitrary restrictions on our runtime environment. If we want this, > we should disallow all platforms we don't test on and of course also al > processor variants we don't test on! :-) > > Uwe > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > http://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: [email protected] > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Erick Erickson [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:23 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Should we EOL support for 32 bit systems? >> >> I have no real skin in this game, but I thought it worth asking after Uwe's >> recent e-mail about disabling 32bits with -server tests. >> >> I guess it boils down to "who is using 32-bit versions?". Are we spending >> time/energy supporting a configuration that is not useful to enough people >> to merit the effort? >> >> I'm perfectly content if the response is "That's a really stupid question to >> ask, >> of course we must continue to support 32-bit OSs". >> Although some evidence would be nice ;) >> >> It's just that nobody I work with is running 32 bit OS's. Whether that's >> just my >> limited exposure to people running small systems is certainly a valid >> question. >> >> If we _do_ decide to drop support for 32 bit systems, what's the right >> version? 6.0? >> >> Random thoughts on a slow Tuesday morning.... >> >> Erick >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional >> commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
