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["M.L." <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>]

On Lundi 11 Novembre 2002 11:31, Casey Harkins wrote:
> 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.
>

Interresting... do you know how to write a spell ? ;)

> 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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