Debian Developers - Re: Architecture independent binaries and building from source

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Re: Architecture independent binaries and building from source

Justin Pryzby

2004-08-13, 2:50 am

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:25:10PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> Well said.
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:55:40PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
>

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:25:10PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> derivitive forms is okay. Indeed, in the case of java, I don't think it
> will matter 0.02 worth who compiles it. Java is reverse compilable, so
> I think the bytecode will be the same either way. Can someone confirm
> this? Then, it'd be nice if we could allow for upstream binaries to be

I just confirmed that Java bytecode _can_ vary. Two compilations with
sun's compiler resulted in identical output, but the output was
different than that produced by kaffe (which also produced two identical
binaries).

Justin