RFR: 8304871: Use default visibility for static library builds
David Holmes
dholmes at openjdk.org
Mon Mar 27 05:26:31 UTC 2023
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:31:32 GMT, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this change for symbol visibility of static library artefacts. This fixes an issue when
> OpenJDK is being used as a base for generating native images preventing the symbols from being
> exported and looked up from the executable. Note that symbol visibity is now controlled by a
> linker version script downstream. This changes nothing for the regularly shipped dynamic libraries.
>
> Thoughts?
make/autoconf/flags-cflags.m4 line 639:
> 637: STATIC_LIBS_CFLAGS="-DSTATIC_BUILD=1"
> 638: if test "x$TOOLCHAIN_TYPE" = xgcc || test "x$TOOLCHAIN_TYPE" = xclang; then
> 639: STATIC_LIBS_CFLAGS="$STATIC_LIBS_CFLAGS -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections"
Is it better/clearer to make the use of the default explicit as we do in the source:
#define JNIEXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default")))
?
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13177#discussion_r1148797430
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