RFR: 8304006: jlink should create the jimage file in the native endian for the target platform [v13]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:40:55 GMT, Mandy Chung <mchung at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 28 commits:
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>>  - merge latest from master branch
>>  - Mandy's suggested patch improvements
>>  - ARM is 32 bit as per platform.m4 in OpenJDK build
>>  - when --endian is specified, verify it matches the implicitly determined target platform's endianness
>>  - trim down the architecture support to the previous values plus a few new that match target.properties
>>  - improve error messages as suggested by Mandy
>>  - formatting fix
>>  - Alan's suggestions - don't parse arch out of osname-arch for determining endianness and reduce the number of supported/known target platforms for cross linking
>>  - Mandy's suggestion - pass along target platform to the DefaultImageBuilder to prevent reparsing the value from the ModuleTarget
>>  - Mandy's suggestion to use Platform class for additional arch support. Plus, Jim's suggestion to use a runtime resource for endianness mapping
>>  - ... and 18 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/ac6af6a6...6f4ab9c6
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> src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jlink/builder/DefaultImageBuilder.java line 168:
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>> 166:      * @throws IOException
>> 167:      * @throws NullPointerException If any of the params is null
>> 168:      * @since 21
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> you can drop this as this is not a public API.

Removed in latest update of the PR.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11943#discussion_r1149148648