On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:47:10 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdo...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> @mlchung The first name constructed by Classloader is always lib<name>.so.
>> So we need a way to map it to lib<name>.a . Else it will search for .so and
>> fail.
>
> Right, the `loadLibraryOnlyIfPresent` change is sufficient for
> `System.load("libname.a(member)")` support. I don't know how common ".a"
> without member specification ist, but that may make sense. It sounds similar
> to what was done for MacOS with
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/1e4dfcfbf00a9b17418bccc0dc746fd9a71f3a06.
> So we should keep the mapAlternativeName for atleast .so to .a
> mapping(without any members mentioned).
"libname.so(member_name)" is not a valid library name. No reason why
`System.load` has to support it.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17945#discussion_r1541477181
