On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 11:01:25 GMT, Suchismith Roy <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > > > > > May be this is academical: Your code works for plain libraries > > > > > > replacing the .so extension by .a. Suppose the case the goal is to > > > > > > load a member of an archive libname.a(member.o), but as in the > > > > > > plain case you get as input libname.so(member.o). In this case you > > > > > > will cut of the member producing the resulting string libname.a > > > > > > instead of libname.a(member.o). Should this situation also be > > > > > > handled or is this forbidden? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Joachim I think the case for member archives exists in dl_open. It > > > > > checks for braces and sets the RTLD_MEMBER flag. (Lines 1132-1134) > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Suchi, but **before** you call dll_load_library, you remove the > > > > member part in my mentioned case > > > > > > > > > Do we have a case where a .so files has braces mentioning the archive > > > members ? I think not. > > > > > > That's why I am asking. If not this is an academical concern. But it should > > be mentioned in a comment, that this is not expected to work. > > Yes, but i was also asking if at all there is a case ,which i am not aware > of. Sure i will mention it in comments. But there is one case that keep me > thinking, is that ..will a particular .so file have an .a file with same > name, but also referred to a member ? No, there is no case I'm aware of. Just theoretical thinking. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#issuecomment-1934227854
