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

[Jorn Vernee]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:56:46 GMT, suchismith1993 <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > That said, I think we should limit the exported symbols to only those found in the standard C library header files: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/header
> 
> Currently the symbols are restricted to some parts of libc and the entire math library libm. Are you suggesting we restrict the list to common math functions such as https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/math ?

I'm suggesting to include things that are defined by the C standard, plus some platform specific extensions. i.e. limit this to what is considered part of the public/supported API of the standard library on AIX.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16414#issuecomment-1807614260