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JDK 6 support?

user13651907Jun 13 2014 — edited Aug 3 2014

Hi,

On the downloads page it still says, "Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse supports JDK 6 and JDK 7."  I tried the latest release, though, and got an error that JDK 7 is required.  What is the most recent release that will run on JDK 6?

Also, please update your downloads page to reflect this and point us to the right release for our JDK version.

Thanks,

Ari

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Such optimization are done by JIT compiler (not by javac).
C++ have just the same problems, exceptions make CFG analisis more difficult but not impossible.
PS You can read JLS about volatile variables there some additional restrictions on them.
843811
zhmur is right, this makes optimization harder not impossible.

There are sicentific papers aimed at making more analysis/optimization in the presence of many try/catch blocks. For instance, JIT can reorder statements, and then put compensation code into the catch body, recovering program state back if an exception was thrown.

General principle is simple: exceptions are rare. So JIT optimizes the "normal" control flow by the cost of more complex catch body.

You may also look/post to the comp.compilers newsgroup regarding compilers and optimization techniques

Denis

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