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Build ID: I20080502-0100 Steps To Reproduce: 1. From eclipse.org navigate to Projects -> Eclipse Platform -> Download -> 3.4M7 2. Next to Windows (x86_64) navigate to "Supported Versions" 3. Observe supported platforms for Windows Vista x86_64 More information: In short: a workaround for an extremely aggravating Vista-64/Eclipse 3.4 hotspot crash exists, please prominently document it! Investigating Eclipse 3.4M7/JDK6u6 hotspot crashes brought me to bug #230245 - where twatson indicated my issue was a hotspot 10 bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6614100 including a workaround that greatly reduced my frustration running Eclipse on Vista-64. First it would help to indicate supported JDK versions for Vista-64. Second, would it be appropriate to prominently list errata for running Eclipse on Vista-64? Users may find it frustrating to dig this deep to be told "it's not an Eclipse bug".
Moving to the Platform website.
The plan currently identifies J2SE 5.0 update 14 as the Sun reference platform on Vista 64. We have people running on that here, and it seems to be working for them. We do not list all possible VMs that fail in our plans. However, if at the time we ship there are known problems with a particular VM that is in common use, we typically put that info into the readme. Tom, can you make sure the readme contains the information and if not, update it (and have it ready if we do another doc build). If there is a workaround, please make sure that that is included.
I will provide a patch to the readme.
Note the crash is not specific to x86-64, we have seen this on several platform but always with the Sun VM: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=214092.
Created attachment 104166 [details] readme patch (In reply to comment #4) > Note the crash is not specific to x86-64, we have seen this on several platform > but always with the Sun VM: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=214092. > Every crash I saw happened with the 64-bit 1.6 Sun VM, but it did occur on different platforms (Windows and Linux). Here is a readme entry.
Kim, can you release this readme change for the first doc build after RC4 has been declared?
patch released, thanks Tom.
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