On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:49:56 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:45 -0600, Tom Grieve wrote: > > snip... >31-bit being a subset of yes 64-bit, yes, I *absolutely* expect all >software to be capable of discerning the absence (or dearth) of storage >above the bar. >Where it causes a failure, fail gracefully. I am astounded that "java >-version" is incapable of being executed in a 31-bit address space. >I am not at all surprised that it produces no meaningful message. > >Shane ... OK, that's fair enough, graceful failure with meaningful error messages is absolutely desirable.
Tom Grieve CICS Development IBM Hursley Park ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
