[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v2]

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 18:13:15 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> hotspot/src/os/aix/vm/os_aix.cpp line 1455:
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>>> 1453: // Loads .dll/.so and in case of error it checks if .dll/.so was built
>>> 1454: // for the same architecture as Hotspot is running on.
>>> 1455: static void* dll_load(const char *filename, char *ebuf, int ebuflen) {
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>> Are you sure this is correct? The [JDK 11u](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk11u-dev/commit/6808c5c89d1e30f481ebe444f93175232bcd30e2#diff-5f68fc3ce77d56a6e5a398c51eb1e1b56ea41175e8a86a1c5d92e167ba2b2b40R1316) change renamed this to `dll_load_library`. Does this even work?
>
> @jerboaa I see the certificate tests failing in the tests. Are these due to some other issue ? I do not see how my fix would cause a certificate issue.

@suchismith1993 Please merge latest master, those tests should be on the problem list by now. See https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8328809

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/473#discussion_r1555440244