On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:39:33 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarr...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This change seems premature. Various companies (Oracle, SAP, others?) are 
> still supporting macos-x64 on mainline.

Maybe premature, maybe not. We always run against the runner availability in 
GHA. AFAIU, MacOS 13 will EOL 3 years after release, so around Oct 2025. I 
don't mind waiting until next year, but want to point out that the clock is 
ticking on GHA support for Mac x86, and runner availability will likely get 
gradually worse. Given that GHA runs for every PR, I prefer to fix GHA 
relabililty/turnaround issues before they become pain points.

> Removing this seems to be just asking for more frequent backouts due to 
> x64-specific changes that aren't compatible with clang.

I would assume that clang incompatibilities would be caught as build 
error/warnings during the build. This PR suggests to only disable the test 
jobs. Build jobs are still on, and at least some parts of runtime are verified 
when building the full JDK, e.g. when building jmods/jimages.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21257#issuecomment-2382888957

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