RFR: 8268129: LibraryLookup::ofDefault leaks symbols from loaded libraries [v7]

[Cheng Jin]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 20:49:44 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch overhauls the library loading mechanism used by the Foreign Linker API. We realized that, while handy, the *default* lookup abstraction (`LibraryLookup::ofDefault`) was behaving inconsistentlt across platforms.
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>> This patch replaces `LibraryLookup` with a simpler `SymbolLookup` abstraction, a functional interface. Crucially, `SymbolLookup` does not concern with library loading, only symbol lookup. For this reason, two factories are added:
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>> * `SymbolLookup::loaderLookup` - which obtains a lookup that can be used to lookup symbols in libraries loaded by current loader
>> * `CLinker::systemLookup` - a more stable replacement for the *default* lookup, which looks for symbols in libc.so (or its equivalent in other platforms). The contents of this lookup are unspecified.
>> 
>> Both factories are *restricted*, so they can only be called when `--enable-native-access` is set.
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> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Address review comments on shim lib makefile

If so,  I am wondering whether there is anything else left (inherited from JDK16) in JDK17 we can leverage to support `libc.a` on AIX except the way similar to Windows.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4316