[GPR] Removed GPR_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY_MODE #35602
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GPR_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY_MODEwas devised to support old Linux kernel with old glibc but gRPC is now expected to support glibc 2.17 and later (2.17 is derived from the oldest but supported Linux distro, CentOS 7). Effectively, gRPC doesn't needGPR_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY_MODEanymore. Hence, let's remove it.gRPC Python and Ruby that distribute binary artifacts already began to use
manylinuxenvironment dealing with this issue in a better way so they don't need this flag anymore.