RFR: 8166189: Fix for Bug 8165524 breaks AIX build
Mandy Chung
mandy.chung at oracle.com
Fri Sep 16 17:31:10 UTC 2016
> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:58 AM, Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> the fix for https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165524 breaks the AIX build as function dladdr is not available on AIX.
>
> There already exist ports of that API in hotspot and awt. With the proposed change I duplicate the awt port to libjli. This is maybe only a quick fix - eventually we should think about consolidating and using the hotspot port in all places by exporting it from libjvm.so for AIX.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166189
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~clanger/webrevs/8166189.0/
This looks okay. It’d be good to consolidate the hotspot and awt code as a JVM entry point. But launcher would need to carry this copy since dladdr is called before libjvm.so is loaded.
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Mandy
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