RFR: JDK-8317799 : AIX PPC64: FFI symbol lookup doesn't find symbols [v7]

[suchismith1993]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:50:07 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> suchismith1993 has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>>  - Fix Typos
>>  - Remove unnecessary includes
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> Note that on Windows we also have a lookup mechanism on the Java side: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/2c31ca525b1cd70c3dfcb0463c8c984bdd7c886a/src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/foreign/SystemLookup.java#L159
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> On Windows we need to load the global array, and then grab functions from the array. Why isn't that needed on AIX? Is `dlsym` able to find the statically linked functions as well?

Thank you @JornVernee @magicus @dholmes-ora @TheRealMDoerr @erikj79  
Thanks for enocuraging to work towards a better solution which enabled me to understand and explore windows code as well.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16414#issuecomment-1822780431