[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v2]

[Suchismith Roy]

> Hi all,
> 
> This pull request contains a backport of commit [e85355ad](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/e85355ada4ac1061c49ee9f1247d37a437c7b5ab) from the [openjdk/jdk](https://git.openjdk.org/jdk) repository.
> 
> The commit being backported was authored by Suchismith Roy on 27 Feb 2024 and was reviewed by Amit Kumar, Thomas Stuefe, Joachim Kern and Martin Doerr.
> 
> Thanks!

Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

  Update os_aix.cpp
  
  Restore comments.

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2332/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2332/files/8d9ee5a8..463e01bd

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk17u-dev&pr=2332&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk17u-dev&pr=2332&range=00-01

  Stats: 2 lines in 1 file changed: 2 ins; 0 del; 0 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2332.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev.git pull/2332/head:pull/2332

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2332