RFR: 8308246: PPC64le build broken after JDK-8304913

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 17 May 2023 07:16:17 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> PPC64le needs to get recognized as PPC64. Otherwise, jlink doesn't recognize the platform and throws a PluginException: ModuleTarget is malformed: No enum constant jdk.internal.util.Architecture.PPC64LE.

src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jlink/internal/Platform.java line 55:

> 53:         // Alias architecture "amd64" to "X64" and "ppc64le" to "ppc64"
> 54:         archName = archName.replace("amd64", "X64")
> 55:                            .replace("ppc64le", "ppc64");

Is linux-ppc64 big endian? If so, a module with a ModuleTarget value of linux-ppc64le can't be linked with a module that has ModuleTarget value of linux-ppc64.  I'm not say the aliasing here is wrong but I am curious if attempts to link will fail.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14027#discussion_r1196175791