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

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/12/2023 10:22, Stewart Addison wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> I put in a fix for another Win32 build break recently but hadn't 
> realised it was broken again - ref 
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319958. Since the Win32 port is 
> currently only deprecated I was already wondering if we should go for 
> the simple solution of having some github PR checks added for Win32 
> along with the other platforms (Obviously it would need the parameter 
> to enable deprecated ports) as I feel this would help prevent things 
> being merged and subsequently backported that break things.

I assume this would put a tax on everyone, the testing in GHA is already 
a bit noisy. Seems like it would be better to remove the port, I think 
it would be useful to hear from George Adams and Bruno Borges to know if 
they plan to follow-up JEP 449 and do the next step.

-Alan