RFR: 8017234: Hotspot should stop using mapfiles [v2]

Fri Feb 23 13:56:55 UTC 2024

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:36:23 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I just realized I could keep an extremely simplified linker script ("mapfile") for gcc, and thereby keeping the `@SUNWprivate_1.1` on the exported symbols, and keeping `__bss_start` and friends local. This further minimizes the difference to the existing libjvm.so for gcc builds.

Why do this just for GCC? Shouldn't this be for Linux as we are doing it for backwards compatibility with user JNI libraries.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17955#issuecomment-1961367943