RFR: Export InitializeEncoding for JVM access

[Andrew Leonard]

Hi Roger,
The OpenJ9 VM implementation provides its own java.lang.System, which 
performs similar type early-on VM initialization to the OpenJDK core 
library classes. The basic reason for invoking the method is to initialize 
the platform encoding either called from a related core library method, 
eg.initProperties(), or from the VM in the early stages of initialization.

My suggested comparison with canonicalize was based on it's indicated 
usage:
/*
 * Export the platform dependent path canonicalization so that
 * VM can find it when loading system classes.
 * This function is also used by the instrumentation agent.
 */
extern int canonicalize(char *path, const char *out, int len);

JNIEXPORT int
Canonicalize(JNIEnv *unused, char *orig, char *out, int len)
{
    /* canonicalize an already natived path */
    return canonicalize(orig, out, len);
}


Many thanks,
Andrew


Andrew Leonard
Java Runtimes Development
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