Integrated: JDK-8288094: cleanup old _MSC_VER handling

[Matthias Baesken]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 11:37:21 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We still handle at a number of places ancient historic _MSC_VER versions of Visual Studio releases e.g. pre VS2013 (VS2013 has _MSC_VER 1800).
> This should be cleaned up, as long as it is not 3rd party code that we don't want to adjust.
> 
> Currently still supported ("valid") VS version are 2017+, see https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/make/autoconf/toolchain_microsoft.m4 .
> VALID_VS_VERSIONS="2019 2017 2022"
> Even with adjusted toolchain m4 files, something older than VS2013 (also probably older than VS2015) would not be able to build jdk anymore.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 0530f4e5
Author:    Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/0530f4e517be5d5b3ff10be8a0764e564f068c06
Stats:     163 lines in 9 files changed: 0 ins; 149 del; 14 mod

8288094: cleanup old _MSC_VER handling

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, clanger, aturbanov

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9105