RFR: 8307160: Fix AWT/2D/A11Y to support the permissive- flag on the Microsoft Visual C compiler [v46]

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:24:42 GMT, Julian Waters <jwaters at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We should set the -permissive- flag for the Microsoft Visual C compiler, as was requested by the now backed out [JDK-8241499](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8241499). Doing so makes the Visual C compiler much less accepting of ill formed code, which will improve code quality on Windows in the future.
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> Julian Waters has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 79 commits:
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>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into patch-10
>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into patch-10
>  - Fix awt_Window.cpp
>  - Fix awt_PrintJob.cpp
>  - -Zc:stringStrings no longer needed with -permissive- flags-cflags.m4
>  - Fix awt_Window.cpp
>  - awt_Window.cpp
>  - awt_PrintJob.cpp
>  - awt_Frame.cpp
>  - Whitespace awt_Component.cpp
>  - ... and 69 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/35e96627...cbfbaee6

What is remaining to get this PR committable? It has such a long history that it is hard to get a grasp on the remaining issues. 

@TheShermanTanker Could you perhaps summarize the remaining hurdles?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15096#issuecomment-1887030877