Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed1.swip.net!newsfeed2.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!feeder1.news.elisa.fi!uutiset.elisa.fi!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: Jukka Lahtinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Organization: N/A References: <79f46583-8c65-45ea-844f-d0c5194793e0@googlegroups.com> <51d2cd95$0$15893$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <51d2e049$0$15968$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <51d381ee$0$303$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> X-no-archive: yes Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gChe6E7PvsFmDeUutBCoXA+yUa4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 15 Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:53:50 +0300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.155.88.191 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com X-Trace: uutiset.elisa.fi 1372863230 91.155.88.191 (Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:53:50 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:53:50 EEST Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:24613 Arne Vajhøj writes: > On 7/2/2013 3:25 PM, Roedy Green wrote: >> I would think it plausible an OS installer would automatically choose >> 64 bit if there is 4+ MB of RAM. > That would be very stupid. > As a 64 bit Java would not run on a 32 bit OS with more than 4 GB of > memory. There wouldn't BE a 32 bit OS with more than 4 GB of memory, if the OS installer would automatically choose a 64 bit version. -- Jukka Lahtinen