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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, M.L. wrote:

> On Dimanche 10 Novembre 2002 01:17, Casey Harkins wrote:
> > I'm sure the majority of people on this list are well aware of the
> > problems with the java plugin when mozilla is compiled with gcc 3.1+. It'd
> > be nice if sun would fix this before we hit 1.0.
> >
> > If you haven't done so already, I recommend signing up for an account at
> > developer.java.sun.com and voting for bug #4694590. Not sure if it will
> > help, but it certainly can't hurt!
> >
>
> Sure,
>
> maybe we can have a look at others JVM ? (like IBM, towerj and so on) ?

Choice is always good. We did some performance testing on some Swing/JDBC
stuff under Linux about a year ago and found that IBM's JVM blew the pants
off Sun's and the gcc java->native stuff.

It looks like Sun may finally be taking care of this problem. Added today
to the bug comments:

<quote>
MON NOV 11 01:13 A.M. 2002
huanghui1

Here are what we plan to do to solve the libstdc++ problem:

1. statically link libstdc++ (4706607), remove dependency on
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
2. limit dynamic symbols (4776723), avoid symbol conflicts
between the libstdc++ linked with VM and the (potentially
different version) libstdc++ linked with JNI library.
</quote>

This combined with some previous work to remove REGXPCOM stuff from the
plugin* (which required the use of static C++ symbols which disappeared
with the recent ABI changes) should hopefully give us a working java
plugin soon.

*http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4704731.html


Voting for the bug still wouldn't hurt!
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4694590.html


-casey

>
> Bye,
> Mat.
>
> > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4694590.html
> >
> > -casey
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