Patch: Make "os.arch" consistent with Sun's JDK on Win32

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Tue Feb 18 00:09:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> "Ranjit" == Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@hotmail.com> writes:

>> It seems like we should do this at configure time, and for every OS.
>> We could add code to configure.host.

Ranjit> So are you putting this on hold? I mean, what you suggest will take
Ranjit> some time - probably the gathering of the data will take more time
Ranjit> than the patch itself and in the mean time, IMHO, including this 
Ranjit> patch won't hurt terribly, would it? ;-)

Actually, I think this isn't very hard to implement.
There aren't many architectures to worry about.

Some code in Eclipse leads me to believe that the values for 3 common
chips are "x86", "ppc", and "sparc".  The rest we can probably just
pick for the time being.

Tom



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