[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v4]

[Suchismith Roy]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:28:12 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hmmm, this seems to have travelled from trunk to 8u very quickly. This change is not in any released version as yet.
> 
> I think it would have been better to wait until at least the release of 22.0.2. I guess at least the change is isolated to AIX only, but I would make sure this is tested well before the July releases.

Hi @gnu-andrew  What is the usual timeline for a fix to go to the release branch from u-dev branch ? 
I am not sure how it went. I just did the usual backport as i did for 11 and 17.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/473#issuecomment-2057231883