RFR: JDK-8210931 JLI and launchers normalization and cleanup

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Sep 20 12:03:48 UTC 2018



On 20/09/2018 12:31, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I've run at least the instrument tests, but I'll rerun 
> it just to make sure. Does :jdk_instrument and :jdk_launcher sound 
> reasonable?
Yes that will run them.

>
>> At some point I hope we can get the JPLIS agent in libinstrument 
>> changed to not have the dependency on JLI but that will require work.
> What is the current dependency due to? (Just curious)
>
Java Agents are configured by attributes in the main manifest of their 
JAR file and libjli has the native support to do the parsing. This is 
why it is linked against libz too.

-Alan




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