Windows-x86 (32-bit) build is broken. Time to retire it?

[David Holmes]

On 5/12/2023 9:00 pm, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
> 
> There is
> https://openjdk.org/jeps/449 <https://openjdk.org/jeps/449>
> 
> 
>   Deprecate the Windows 32-bit x86 Port for Removal
> 
> 
> I guess we need another JEP to remove it.

I don't think the removal needs a JEP. But it does need someone prepared 
to do the actual work to remove it. Something we could consider for JDK 
23 for sure though.

David
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> (SAP does not need the port.)
> 
> Best regards,
>    Goetz.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 5. Dec 2023, at 11:55, Magnus Ihse Bursie 
>> <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just built windows-x86, and noticed that the build is broken:
>>
>> src\hotspot\share\prims\downcallLinker.cpp(36): error C2373: 
>> 'DowncallLinker::capture_state': redefinition; different type modifiers
>>
>> I think this is most likely caused by JDK-8254693, which was 
>> integrated three weeks ago. If no-one has discovered this, or bothered 
>> to fix it, maybe that is the signal we need to decide to actually stop 
>> pretending that windows-x86 is something we can build for, and just 
>> remove any remaining windows-x86 code?
>>
>> /Magnus
>>
>>
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