Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:

There is no ARM64 release of Python for Windows right now, so unfortunately 
this doesn't constitute any kind of bugfix. We don't have a buildbot, and 
nobody out there has CI, so it's not a supported platform.

I get that it's easier to centrally fix all the third-party packages by 
changing the core library, but we've been saying for nearly 10 years that 
distutils shouldn't be used and shouldn't be assumed to be up to date. Anyone 
building on msvc9compiler.py has been broken since Python 3.5, because they've 
been using the wrong compiler.

A change to _msvccompiler.py for 3.10 can be considered, though you will need 
to get it ready before PEP 632 is accepted, at which point we close all 
distutils-related issues and only reopen for critical bugs.

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