On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure about this. > > IIRC the AIX linker is able to use executables as a build-time input. > Maybe our AIX maintainers have some expertise here. > > I am quite sure we do not do that in the VM. I'm running a test build with your patch. Thanks, Thomas > I think the _dynamic_ linker will see symbols in the executable. Resolving > them is likely to be strictly more work at startup, and it is likely that > the symbols are visible to dlsym(NULL ...) > > We have local patches at Google that involve adding symbols to these > mapfiles to increase visibility to dlsym. Maintaining mapfiles is no fun, > but the precise definition of symbol visibility seems in the Spirit of > Java. > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 4:08 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie < > magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > This patch removes mapfiles for the JDK executables (launchers). There's > > really no reason to have mapfiles in the first place for executables. > Since > > no-one is linking to them, what symbols they export is immaterial. > > > > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200358 > > WebRev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8200358-remove-launcher > > -mapfiles/webrev.01 > > > > /Magnus > > > > >
