[ale] IBM java virtual machines

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jason Day wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:02:27AM -0700, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > If you're on newish glibc, you don't want to use IBM's java. They use 
> > private interfaces from older glibc, and it breaks / does weird stuff with 
> > newer glibc. Sun's java, in constrast, uses the public API....
> 
> I believe the latest 1.4 JVM from Sun uses the public API, but earlier
> releases do not. 

Yep, I was only talking about 1.4. FWIW, the IBM java problems might be gone
in their next release as well -- I'm on a mailing list where the glibc
developers and the IBM jdk developers have been merrily pointing fingers at
each other, and both sides are now more or less in agreement that IBM is
wrong ;-)

later,
chris
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