On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:02:22 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdo...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> > And I still don't understand if this is the list of symbols that are 
> > required by our tests, or the complete list of symbols that FFI 
> > `defaultLookup` returns to user applications. If it is the latter, then 
> > this is sort-of okay as a final solution, but it is the former, I'm stll 
> > frowning upon this solution.
> 
> I have tried creating own .so libraries and the symbol lookup has worked just 
> like on linux. So, it seems like we need workarounds only for special AIX 
> stuff.
> 
> My understanding is that a lot of symbols can be found out of the box because 
> they are in dynamically linked libraries. Only some libraries are special on 
> AIX which don't support dynamic linking and we need this workaround for them.
> 
> @suchismith1993: Is this correct?

Correct

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16414#issuecomment-1816620549

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