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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:46:18 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Gene W. Homicki" <gwh@spiders.com>
Cc:        java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TowerJ for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199901250646.XAA04606@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com>
References:  <199901250143.RAA23403@bubba.whistle.com> <199901250153.RAA07328@rah.star-gate.com> <199901250221.TAA03659@mt.sri.com> <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com>

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>  | Also, once we get a good working JDK1.2, JDK1.2.1 will be released.
>  | Someone should feed the patches back to sun.  What about JIT support?
>  | What about relations with a JIT vendor?
>  +---
> 
> The Solaris/x86 JDK1.2 has a JIT - I don't suppose those sources are
> available from Sun for porting?

The JIT is the symantec JIT, and is Win32 specific.  Solaris X86 does
not use the symantec JIT.  The Solaris JIT sources are not released. :(

>  | Sure it would, but have you approached them and asked for support?  Have
>  | you offered to buy a license?  As has been shown in the past, calls for
>  | 'talking to a vendor' have never been much use on getting software
>  | ported to FreeBSD.  It takes motivated people willing to do it alone and
>  | doing more than send an email saying 'me too' to convince a vendor.
> 
> I've started that process.  How hard I push them will depend on our real 
> need - and other options that I'm looking into.  

Good deal!


Nate

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