RFR: 8339783: Implement JEP 479: Remove the Windows 32-bit x86 Port [v13]

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:05:17 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> make/scripts/compare.sh line 1457:
>> 
>>> 1455:         THIS_SEC_BIN="$THIS_SEC_DIR/sec-bin.zip"
>>> 1456:         if [ "$OPENJDK_TARGET_OS" = "windows" ]; then
>>> 1457:             JGSS_WINDOWS_BIN="jgss-windows-x64-bin.zip"
>> 
>> This is now being defined for windows-aarch64 too, when it previously wasn't.  That seems wrong,
>> given the "x64" suffix.
>
> Well... this was broken on windows-aarch64 before, too, since then it would have looked for `jgss-windows-i586-bin.zip`. 
> 
> I'm going to leave this as it is. Obviously there is a lot more work needed to get the compare script running on windows-aarch64, and I seriously doubt anyone care about that platform enough to spend that time (Microsoft themselves seems to have all but abandoned the windows-aarch64 port...).

So then previously we would go for `jgss-windows-i586-bin.zip` on Windows/AArch64, which also does not seem good. Seeing how there are no bug reports about this, I think we are fine with doing this cleanup, and dealing with the bug, if any, later. @magicus, please submit a JBS issue for it?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21744#discussion_r1822489074