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

[Kumar Srinivasan]

Joe,

Thanks for the review.

> 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.

Got it, I will fix those.

Thanks
Kumar

>
> 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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