RFR: JDK-8317799 : AIX PPC64: FFI symbol lookup doesn't find symbols

[suchismith1993]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:48:59 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Which directory do you suggest to put the exports list in ? Do we create a new directory or use any existing directory.
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> My initial thinking is like Erik's, that this list should be dynamically generated at build-time. I am pretty sure that anything but doing that will end up with hard-to-debug problems in the future. At build-time, you know exactly what symbols you are linking with.
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> If this, for some reason, is infeasible, then we can discuss how to generate/update such a list, and where to put it. If the list needs to be manually generated ahead-of-time of the build, then this should ideally be done by a script that is checked in. If manual intervention/curation is needed, then this needs to be properly documented.
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> Just pushing a list like this, with no explanation, is not going to cut it, regardless of where in the source code tree it is stored.

There is not generic way of generating this. It needs a manual intervention and symbols are to be added on a need basis in future. Looks like a list to be maintained. 
I had tried adding comments to explain the list, but that causes build failures. 
Can you point on any guidelines and todos to document this ?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16414#issuecomment-1806047128