On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:27:55 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> To be able to properly support static builds on Windows in 
>> [JDK-8346377](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8346377), we cannot use 
>> `DllMain`, for two reasons:
>> 
>> 1) This is not called for statically linked libraries, and
>> 2) There are multiple `DllMain` definitions throughout the JDK native 
>> libraries, causing name collisions.
>> 
>> While it could have been possible to keep the `DllMain` function for 
>> non-static builds and just use an alternative solution for static builds, I 
>> think it is preferable to have a single solution that works as well for both 
>> static and dynamic builds.
>> 
>> In this case, the `DllMain` function did two things: 
>> 
>> 1) At startup, it called SetModuleHandle. This has been moved to the 
>> `JNI_OnLoad` function, which is called by the JVM right after loading the 
>> DLL, or in the case of a static build, when the `awt` native library has 
>> been requested.
>> 
>> 2) At DLL unload -- for debug builds only -- it "disabled" the mutexes for 
>> the DTrace and DMem debug systems. In this case, "disable" means writing 
>> NULL to the mutexes, causing any further calls to the continue without 
>> locking, since the enter/exit calls only do the locking if the mutex is not 
>> NULL. (This is pre-existing code so I am not discussing the soundness of 
>> this approach.) 
>> 
>> But why did we need to do that? After the DLL unloading, which is done by 
>> Windows when the process is exiting, no code should be executing in AWT, 
>> right? No, wrong. There are three static objects, one instance of 
>> AwtDebugSupport and two instances of GDIHashtable, and the destructors of 
>> these objects are called by Windows at the time of process shutdown. I have 
>> not been able to confirm that the `DllMain` code is guaranteed to be called 
>> before the destructors are called, so I guess the fact that this ever worked 
>> has just been a lucky coincidence. 
>> 
>> I have solved this by disabling the mutexes in the destructors themselves, 
>> thereby guaranteeing that they are disabled before the last few calls to the 
>> DTrace/DMem calls are made. There is no guarantee in which order these 
>> destructors are made, so I do the same on both locations. (There is no bad 
>> effect from calling these twice in a row, it's just setting a mutex to NULL).
>> 
>> Finally, I have wrapped the `DEF_JNI_OnLoad` function in `extern "C" { ... 
>> }`. This is needed since DEF_JNI_OnLoad is a macro that actually creates two 
>> functions, where one is a wrapper calling the other which has a generated 
>> name, and without this, the C++ name mangling messed thi...
>
> Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Make GetAwtModuleHandle static

Marked as reviewed by aivanov (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22790#pullrequestreview-2567470586

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