RFR: JDK-8320890: [AIX] Find a better way to mimic dl handle equality [v8]

[Martin Doerr]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:45:36 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In principle you are right, but in my opinion 1024 is an academical limit. I never saw processes with more than a few dozen loaded libraries.
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> Dynamic allocation also opens us up to potential initialization issues, unless we explicitly use raw ::malloc. It should work, but I think its better avoided unless we really need it.

Well we're fixing an academic issue by introducing another one? Doesn't make sense to me.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16920#discussion_r1433972207