Re: Need JDK1.1.7 compiled against RH6.0 glibc 2.x for Alpha

[Uncle George <gatgul voicenet com>]

This would be interesting, if it were not for the fact that the 64bit changes to
the java code just haven't made it into  SUN's jdk source's.  It is more likely
that the 64bitness of the port is enhanced by the Dec's C compiler to gen 32bit
pointers & stuff.
gat

Dan Morrill wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Rebuck, Gregory wrote:
>
> > Compaq is planning a JDK for Linux/Alpha in the near future.  I can provide
> > no dates for ETA at this time (so don't ask <-8).  Our department eagerly
> > awaits this port as well.
>
> At JavaOne Compaq had a booth advertising their 64-bit version of Java.
> Strangely, they seemed to emphasize the fact that it was 64-bit and said
> "Oh yeah, it's for the Alpha" almost as a footnote.  I guess maybe they were
> just playing to the Java crowd, but it would have been easy to interpret
> them as saying they had a 64-bit Java running on an arbitrary platform, such
> as Intel.