From owner-freebsd-java Fri Sep 24 17:49:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56CC14FAD for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:49:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA24640; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:49:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA00386; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:49:12 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:49:12 -0600 Message-Id: <199909250049.SAA00386@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: MARUYAMA Fuyuhiko Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Announce: New release of JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990925094245M.fuyuhik8@is.titech.ac.jp> References: <199909230514.XAA18035@mt.sri.com> <19990925094245M.fuyuhik8@is.titech.ac.jp> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Notable changes in this release include: > > - Better handling of signals like DIVIDE and SIGFPE which are trapped and > > handled correctly now. > > The bad news: > I think this change may not be merged in ELF version. Please check > the build. It still exists in ELF version. On the other hand, AOUT > version works correctly, so problem is not so difficult, I believe ;-). It's in both versions, since the source code is shared. If it doesn't work, then it's a bug. :) Can you tell us how you've tested this (my memory is short and weak). > > - The ELF version should work better with AWT/Swing applications. The > > FreeBSD project donated a more modern copy of Motif that should avoid > > some weird X errors that occurred previously. > > The good news: > New ELF version works well, now I need not to concern about reported > problem. Great! Glad to hear it! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message