RFR: JDK-8320005 : Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v23]

[Suchismith Roy]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:15:59 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Address review comments
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> src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp line 1185:
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>> 1183:   // Shared object in .so format dont have braces, hence they get removed for archives with members.
>> 1184:   if (error_code == EACCES || error_code == ENOENT) {
>> 1185:     if (strlen(new_extension) > strlen(old_extension)){
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> I think this should better be an assertion because the extensions are constants.

As assertions are not supported in debug builds i did not use assert. May i know what is the purpose of assert,in general, as per design ?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#discussion_r1494392043