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

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:54:17 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

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

Okay, I butt out, I don't care enough. Up to you both to decide what to do. 

My recommendation would still be to avoid hotspot infrastructure that relies on os::malloc and friends; other than that, rewriting this table to make it growable using realloc should be trivial. Note that we need *some* sort of limit though.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16920#discussion_r1433996779