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

[Mandy Chung]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:18:10 GMT, Mandy Chung <mchung at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I think we both mean that the `if (name.contains("("))` block should get removed.
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>> We are not supporting that. Are you referring to the comment in the code ? Yeah it should be resconstruction of libname(member_name).so , which is the first filename the classLoader constructs.
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> Note that `System.mapLibraryName` and `mapAlternativeName` are called for `System.loadLibrary`  (i.e. prepending `lib` and appending `.so`).    "libname(member_name)" is not a valid name and no reason for `System.loadLibrary`  to support it.

> I think we both mean that the if (name.contains("(")) block should get removed.

Because of the VM support, we can remove `mapAlternativeName` completely.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17945#discussion_r1541531589