[8u] RFR: 8262864: No debug symbols in image for Windows --with-native-debug-symbols=external

[Simon Tooke]

On 2021-03-10 5:45 a.m., Andrew Leonard wrote:
> The issue Simon is referring to I think is at the source of the .pdb
> generation for java.exe/dll (probably in
> make/common/NativeCompilation.gmk), since they have the same basename one
> is going to overwrite the other...this behavior is separate to this Image
> creation copy rules. I've raised a new issue to cover that:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8263356

I have clarified in JBS that this issue is still present in later JDKs, 
although I've only tested 11u and head.

-Simon

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