Dropping 32-bit support (was Branches)

[Artem Ananiev]

Alternatively, we can completely ignore ARCH_DATA_MODEL on Mac and 
always build universal binaries. As far as I remember, we did exactly 
this when Mac OS X Port was a standalone OpenJDK project. Of course, in 
this case we'll lose an ability to build 32-bit and 64-bit only builds, 
which may be useful in cases when JDK/JRE size is important.

Thanks,

Artem

On 2/22/2012 1:51 AM, Michael McMahon wrote:
> Jim,
>
> If the Hotspot openjdk build is changed to produce both 32/64 bit binaries
> then the JDK build can be changed to do the same. The only reason why
> 32 bit support was removed in the JDK libs was because it wasn't
> available in Hotspot
> at the time. This seemed to align with Oracle's (and Apple's)
> views/plans at the time also.
>
> However, it's clear there is a demand for at least the Openjdk source to
> be buildable for
> 32/64 bit. How about if ARCH_DATA_MODEL=universal then we build both on
> Mac OS X?
>
> We can do this in jdk7u-dev (post 7u4) and in jdk8. I don't see any need
> to get it into
> 7u4 because Oracle won't be supporting it in our JDK anyway.
>
> - Michael
>
> On 21/02/12 22:45, James Melvin wrote:
>> One caveat...
>>
>> For the JVM, we've preserved 32/64-bit universal builds. Currently, the
>> JVM universal build only includes 64-bit support. Additionally including
>> 32-bit requires 3 Makefile uncomments. However, there may likely be
>> additional work on the JDK side to fully support the same.
>>
>> - Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/21/12 5:21 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
>>> On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another question for you guys about OSX.
>>>>
>>>> 32 bits support as been removed some weeks ago without further notice
>>>> on OSX version.
>>>>
>>>> * Why such decision ?
>>>>
>>>> * How could we bring back 32 bits support, especially -d32 support ?
>>>>
>>>> * Where is the correct location to enter a bug report on this
>>>> (bugreport.sun.com ?)
>>>
>>> Dalibor& Mark,
>>>
>>> Henri raises some good points here, since the ability to build
>>> OpenJDK 32/64 Universal was lost in the merge from the macosx-port
>>> repository to the jdk7u-osx repository with no public discussion.
>>>
>>> I thought the ability to build 32/64 Universal was preserved, and
>>> Oracle was simply going to support 64-bit only in it's proprietary
>>> builds.
>>>
>>> What is the best path to fixing this?
>>>
>>> Mike Swingler
>>> Apple Inc.
>>>
>