On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:18:43 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review for this change which proposes to fix the issue 
>> reported in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8206890?
>> 
>> The `jlink` command allows a `--endian` option to specify the byte order in 
>> the generated image. Before this change, when such a image was being 
>> launched, the code would assume the byte order in the image to be the native 
>> order of the host where the image is being launched. That would result in 
>> failure to launch java, as noted in the linked issue.
>> 
>> The commit in this PR, changes relevant places to not assume native order 
>> and instead determine the byte order by reading the magic bytes in the image 
>> file's header content.
>> 
>> A new jtreg test has been added which reproduces the issue and verifies the 
>> fix.
>
> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 28 commits:
> 
>  - merge latest from master branch
>  - Mandy's suggested patch improvements
>  - ARM is 32 bit as per platform.m4 in OpenJDK build
>  - when --endian is specified, verify it matches the implicitly determined 
> target platform's endianness
>  - trim down the architecture support to the previous values plus a few new 
> that match target.properties
>  - improve error messages as suggested by Mandy
>  - formatting fix
>  - Alan's suggestions - don't parse arch out of osname-arch for determining 
> endianness and reduce the number of supported/known target platforms for 
> cross linking
>  - Mandy's suggestion - pass along target platform to the DefaultImageBuilder 
> to prevent reparsing the value from the ModuleTarget
>  - Mandy's suggestion to use Platform class for additional arch support. 
> Plus, Jim's suggestion to use a runtime resource for endianness mapping
>  - ... and 18 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/ac6af6a6...6f4ab9c6

src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jlink/builder/DefaultImageBuilder.java 
line 168:

> 166:      * @throws IOException
> 167:      * @throws NullPointerException If any of the params is null
> 168:      * @since 21

you can drop this as this is not a public API.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11943#discussion_r1147826351

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