RFR: JDK-8320005 : Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v16]

[Joachim Kern]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 09:59:11 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> J2SE agent does not start and throws error when it tries to find the shared library ibm_16_am.
>> After searching for ibm_16_am.so ,the jvm agent throws and error as dll_load fails.It fails to identify the shared library ibm_16_am.a shared archive file on AIX.
>> Hence we are providing a function which will additionally search for .a file on AIX ,when the search for .so file fails.
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> Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Free the buffer

src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp line 1114:

> 1112: 
> 1113:   log_info(os)("attempting shared library load of %s", filename);
> 1114:   printf("Loading the filename %s\n",filename);

Is this just accidentally remaining debug code or do you want to protocol each dlopen on stdout?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#discussion_r1482709076