On 2013-11-19 19:46, Jeremy Manson wrote:
Not really. We have to keep the patch to the launcher going anyway, so having this be part of it isn't a big deal. But it should definitely either be corrected or removed, because if someone did depend on its behavior being correct, then they would break 32-bit x86 builds.
We'll remove it. Too late for that for jdk8, though. I created https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8028770 to track this. Thank you for your bug report! /Magnus
