Hi Roger,
The OpenJ9 VM implementation provides its own java.lang.System, which
performs similar type early-on VM initialization to the OpenJDK core
library classes. The basic reason for invoking the method is to initialize
the platform encoding either called from a related core library method,
eg.initProperties(), or from the VM in the early stages of initialization.
My suggested comparison with canonicalize was based on it's indicated
usage:
/*
* Export the platform dependent path canonicalization so that
* VM can find it when loading system classes.
* This function is also used by the instrumentation agent.
*/
extern int canonicalize(char *path, const char *out, int len);
JNIEXPORT int
Canonicalize(JNIEnv *unused, char *orig, char *out, int len)
{
/* canonicalize an already natived path */
return canonicalize(orig, out, len);
}
Many thanks,
Andrew
Andrew Leonard
Java Runtimes Development
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