RFR: JDK-8319516 - Native library suffix impact on the library loading in AIX- Java Class Loader [v5]

[Mandy Chung]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:56:21 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>  And it has been in J9 for long time for the exact same reason, which actually brought out the issue for dcstartup in OpenJDK.

dcstartup fails because it fails to load an agent library specified via `-agentlib:am_ibm_16` that was fixed by JDK-8320005.   I assume that's what you referred to "J9 had for a long time".   This does not use `System::loadLibrary`.    It's unclear if any JNI native library is changed to load from an archive object.   Any customer reporting this issue?

> I just feel keeping load functionality is still applicable, which does not expect a deterministic mapping (or does it ? ). if loadLibrary expects this to be deterministic, then i agree, we should drop that.

It's not about deterministic mapping or not.   `System::load` is intended for loading JNI native libraries but not for providing equivalent functionality to `dlopen`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17945#issuecomment-2018810383