RFR: 8017234: Hotspot should stop using mapfiles

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:18:16 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > it turned out that there were several symbols declared JNIEXPORT that were not included in the symbol list,
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> There appear to be two main categories of functions here:
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>     1. Those intended for use from a debugger
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> Have you verified those functions can still be called from the debugger?
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>     2. JVMCI
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> 
> The Graal folk will need to chime in here as it may be that these are needed for libgraal.

I tried to be clear, but apparently I failed: There is *no* change to these symbols in the patch! So everything should work just as before!

The reason I even brought it up to discussion is that it required a bit of a "hack" to keep the functionality identical, and this looks suspicious in the source code.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17955#issuecomment-1959032516