On Wed, 31 May 2023 18:25:18 GMT, Roger Riggs <rri...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The internal enum jdk.internal.util.Architecture does not provide 
>> information about the big or little endianness or the address size (64 or 32 
>> bits).  The endian-ness and address size are intrinsic to the architecture.
>> 
>> The values of the enum are extended to separately identify the big endian 
>> and little-endian uses of the ISA.
>> For example, `PPC64` and `PPC64LE` for the big and little-endian versions.  
>> The enum values directly reflect the build-time artifacts and resulting 
>> executables.
>> 
>> This information about an architecture will make the enum more useful 
>> especially to identify a target platform in a cross-platform use case. A 
>> method is added to map well known aliases for the platforms to the 
>> Architecture enum.
>
> Roger Riggs has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove duplicate import

Thanks for the updates! LGTM.

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Marked as reviewed by mdoerr (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14063#pullrequestreview-1454964630

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