On 20/06/2008, David Holmes - Sun Microsystems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we need to be careful about the word "recommended" here? There is a big > difference between "compiles fine" and "works fine". Anyone using alternate > compilers to build the JDK (Hotspot in particular) may encounter compiler > specific bugs at runtime. > > Do we have a big disclaimer/warning somewhere about this? Any bug reports > would need to include which compiler was used. > > David Holmes >
I would hope one of the side effects of moving the JDK from a proprietary to a community-based Free Software model would be that it gets built, run and tested on a much wider range of platforms and compilers. This has already started to happen. The reality is that people aren't going to download and build a specific copy of GCC just for OpenJDK, and distros will certainly want it to build with the GCC they use for everything else. As I say, the advantage of this now being a community project is that this burden is no longer just in Sun's hands, everyone can help out. -- Andrew :-) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
