RFR: 8273801: Handle VMTYPE for "core" VM variant

[David Holmes]

On 15/09/2021 11:34 pm, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:45:51 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:
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>> But perhaps we should be looking to remove "core" going forward?
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> Yes, we should consider it. @magicus [told me](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/5440#discussion_r705464312) that somebody wanted for "core" to remain, the last time the removal was suggested. I guess is it somewhat useful in porting work: producing the builds where only template interpreter is implemented.

Good point - I hadn't considered that. But I wonder whether it is 
actually still functional? If so and we want to keep it we should 
probably build it regularly.

David

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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5525
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