RFR: JDK-8320005 : Native library suffix impact on hotspot code in AIX [v2]

[suchismith1993]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 06:16:54 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> If .a is a valid shared object format on AIX, this should be handled in `os::dll_load()`, and be done for all shared objects. If not, why do we try to load a static archive via dlload in this case but not in other cases?

In AIX, we  have shared objects with .a extension and also static archives with .a extension.I think in other platforms the format for shared objects is fixed? .  In that case does this become specific to AIX?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#issuecomment-1824086655