RFR(S/L): 8028537: PPC64: Updated the JDK regression tests to run on AIX

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/01/2014 16:57, Volker Simonis wrote:
> :
>
> test/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpChannel/Util.java
> test/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpMultiChannel/Util.java
> test/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpServerChannel/Util.java
>
>     - On AIX, we currently haven't implemented SCTP but we nevertheless
>     compile the shared SCTP classes into the runtime class library. This way
>     the AIX JDK can at least compile SCTP applications altough it can not run
>     them. To support this scenario, the runtime check for the availability of
>     SCTP has to be extended to catch UnsatisfiedLinkError and
>     NoClassDefFoundError. UnsatisfiedLinkError will be thrown the first time
>     when the class SctpChannelImpl will be loaded because it cannot load the
>     its native support library in the static initialisation section. On the
>     next load attempt of the class, a NoClassDefFoundError will be thrown
>     because of the previously failed initialisation.
>
OS X has the same issue and the solution used there are stub 
implementations that just throw UOE. Details in 
jdk/src/macosx/classes/sun/nio/ch/sctp and that maybe that would work 
for AIX too.

-Alan.