RFR: JDK-8319516 - Native library suffix impact on the library loading in AIX- Java Class Loader [v4]

[Jorn Vernee]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:43:45 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Allow support for both .a and .so files in AIX.
>> If .so file is not found, allow fallback to .a extension.
>> JBS Issue: [JDK-8319516](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319516)
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> Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   trraling spaces

I think ideally the member suffix should be added by `System.mapLibraryName` since that takes care of mapping the platform agnostic library name to a platform specific string that identifies a library. Is it possible to infer the member name from the library name? (e.g. from `clang` infer `clang(libclang.so.16)`).

FWIW, there exists an API that is a more direct proxy for dlopen, which is `SymbolLookup.libaryLookup`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17945#issuecomment-2013435496