RFR: JDK-8317799 : AIX PPC64: FFI symbol lookup doesn't find symbols

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:54:40 GMT, suchismith1993 <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Which directory do you suggest to put the exports list in ? Do we create a new directory or use any existing directory.

My initial thinking is like Erik's, that this list should be dynamically generated at build-time. I am pretty sure that anything but doing that will end up with hard-to-debug problems in the future. At build-time, you know exactly what symbols you are linking with.

If this, for some reason, is infeasible, then we can discuss how to generate/update such a list, and where to put it. If the list needs to be manually generated ahead-of-time of the build, then this should ideally be done by a script that is checked in. If manual intervention/curation is needed, then this needs to be properly documented.

Just pushing a list like this, with no explanation, is not going to cut it, regardless of where in the source code tree it is stored.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16414#issuecomment-1805972829