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

[Jorn Vernee]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:32:48 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I cannot decide if this is an AIX issue for not using dynamic libraries; a FFI issue for assuming dynamic libraries; or a test issue. Won't this be a general problem for any function you try to access via FFI that is statically linked?

Not sure what FFI is expected to do differently here. It is not possible to load a static library at runtime and look up functions inside of it, as far as I know.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16414#issuecomment-1807600121