On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:12:07 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Several instances of function pointers in jdk.crypto.cryptoki are marked with > the dllimport attribute, which should only be applied to symbol declarations, > of which a typedef'd function pointer is not. This would only be useful if a > function pointer defined in the linked dll is desired to be imported, not if > the pointer itself is created locally and used to store a function address. > In addition to being incorrect, at least on the versions of Visual C++ the > JDK supports today, it is also redundant; Typically they are used to avoid an > indirect stub that jumps to the proper entry in the import address table, but > usage of these typedefs involves loading the address of a function and > directly (Usually through GetProcAddress, even in other cases it would simply > be set to the address of a function anyway) assigning it to the pointer > before immediately dispatching when called, which bypasses this procedure > entirely and makes the attribute pointless. This pull request has been closed without being integrated. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9304
