RFR: JDK-8320005 : Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v13]

[Martin Doerr]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 09:42:00 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In addition, the nullptr check is important to avoid undefined behavior when passing `pointer_to_dot` to any string function.
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> Ok. So then may be we can return a nullptr and do a   log_info(os) with the correct error report ? @tstuefe @TheRealMDoerr

I'd probably use `log_info(library)`.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#discussion_r1474449287