On Thu, 27 May 2021 04:23:16 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Maxim Kartashev has refreshed the contents of this pull request, and 
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>>   8195129: System.load() fails to load from unicode paths
>
> src/hotspot/os/windows/os_windows.cpp line 1462:
> 
>> 1460:   const int flag_source_str_is_null_terminated = -1;
>> 1461:   const int flag_estimate_chars_count = 0;
>> 1462:   int utf16_chars_count_estimated = 
>> MultiByteToWideChar(source_encoding,
> 
> Your local naming style is somewhat excessive. You could just comment the 
> values of the flags when you pass them eg:
> 
> MultiByteToWideChar(source_encoding,
>                                     MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS,
>                                    source_str,
>                                    -1, //source is null-terminated
>                                   NULL, // no output buffer
>                                   0); // calculate required buffer size
> 
> Or you could just add a comment before the call:
> 
> // Perform a dummy conversion so that we can get the required size of the 
> buffer to
> // allocate. The source is null-terminated.
> 
> Trying to document parameter semantics by variable naming doesn't work in my 
> opinion - at some point if you want to know you have to RTFM for the API.
> 
> And utf16_len is perfectly adequate for the returned size.

Fair enough. Corrected.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4169

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