RFR: 8328995: Launcher can't open jar files where the offset of the manifest is >4GB [v9]

[Liam Miller-Cushon]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:36:10 GMT, Liam Miller-Cushon <cushon at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This change fixes a zip64 bug in the launcher that is prevent it from reading the manifest of jars where the 'relative offset of local header' field in the central directory entry is >4GB. As described in APPNOTE.TXT 4.5.3, the offset is too large to be stored in the central directory it is stored in a 'Zip64 Extended Information Extra Field'.
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> Liam Miller-Cushon has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Use /* instead of /** comments

bridgekeeper please keep this open for now

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18479#issuecomment-2310474453