[7u40] Request for review: [macosx] jawt_md.h shipped with jdk is outdated

Anthony Petrov anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Fri May 17 08:09:49 PDT 2013


Thanks. I'm OK if this will be a separate bug.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 05/17/2013 07:00 PM, David DeHaven wrote:
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>>>> The fix looks good to me. Only one question:
>>>>
>>>> src/macosx/javavm/export/jni_md.h
>>>>>   29 #define JNIEXPORT
>>>>
>>>> Does the empty #define imply that when building a jni lib on Mac, it should export all of its symbols by default?
>>>
>>> It depends on gcc's visibility setting, but yes, by default all symbols are exported.
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>>> JDK8 has a better jni_md.h that sets JNIEXPORT to __attribute__(visibility(("default"))). That change should be backported, but should probably need to be done under a different bug ID. I suppose I could sneak it in here :)
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>> IIRC, Martin Buchholz's fix only updated the jni_md.h for Solaris, so the Mac's one is unlikely to change even if his fix is back-ported. Hence I'd vote for adding the __attribute__(visibility(("default"))) in your fix (unless this can break anything - recall the changes needed in awt_LoadLibrary.c where the JNIEXPORT was used in a typedef).
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> The Mac builds currently use the solaris headers in both versions (which is why I was so interested in helping him). I haven't tried building 7u-dev with the attribute set yet, so I'm not sure of the consequences in JDK7. I can give it a try, if it's too ugly I'll file a separate issue to do the backport.
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>> Also, I assume you're going to forward-port your fix to JDK 8 at some point?
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> Yes, that's my plan.
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> -DrD-
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