RFR: JDK-8320005 : Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v22]

[Suchismith Roy]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:50:37 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> * Please assert that the replacement string is smaller than the original string (which it should be, *.so is longer than *.a, but this is insurance against anyone changing the code in the future)

I have done it now. This is just  to make the developer aware that this was the design decision taken ? 
@tstuefe

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#issuecomment-1952105754