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

[Joe Darcy]

Hi Kumar,

Will be glad to see this "feature" purged from the sources!

I believe the comments on lines 135 to 167 in the new file still need 
some updating.

The comment block on line 261 - 273 may need revising too.

Otherwise, looks fine.

Thanks,

-Joe

On 12/11/2013 01:12 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
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