Integrated: 8326587: Separate out Microsoft toolchain linking

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:24:48 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> There is not much overlap on how linking is done on Windows on one hand, and on all Unix platforms on the other. This makes Link.gmk basically consists of two parts, each in it own half of if statements, and the few common parts are artificially shoehorned in to fit both sides.
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> The code will be much clearer if we just split this into two different files.
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> Note that this PR slightly collides with JDK-8326583 (https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/17986). Whichever of this goes in first will mean that the other one needs to make some adaptations.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 3780ad31
Author:    Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/3780ad3133302a91e082dd4e8526425799e88e1f
Stats:     265 lines in 12 files changed: 158 ins; 70 del; 37 mod

8326587: Separate out Microsoft toolchain linking

Reviewed-by: erikj

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17987