RFR: JDK 9: 8024033: [launcher] remove solaris dual mode support

[Kumar Srinivasan]

On 12/11/2013 12:25 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Although I have a small emotional attachment to the idea of fat 
> binaries, there doesn't seem to be too much support for this in the 
> larger java community, and probably the larger unix community will be 
> 64-bit only relatively soon.  So ... OK.
>
> There's one remaining mention of "LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32".  Maybe you want 
> to scrub that as well?
>   589                 (void)UnsetEnv((wanted == 32) ? "LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32" : "LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64");
>
Good catch I will scrub that.
Thanks Martin.

Kumar

>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Kumar Srinivasan 
> <kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com <mailto:kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hello Joe, Martin, et. al.,
>
>     In JDK8, solaris 32-bit support was removed entirely, this is the
>     only platform that required
>      dual-mode support, ie. 32-bit and 64-bit binaries co-located in
>     the same binary hierarchy
>     on the disk. In JDK 8 the DUAL_MODE support was disabled in the
>     launcher, using compile
>     time conditionals, however  in JDK9 we wish to remove the logic
>     entirely, this is messy and
>     makes the launcher cleaner and easier to maintain.
>
>     Webrev:
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8024033/webrev.0/
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eksrini/8024033/webrev.0/>
>
>     Thanks
>     Kumar
>
>