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

[Suchismith Roy]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:55:58 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In this special case here I would not use errno, but the string returned in ebuf, in case the result is nullptr.
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> Argh, I keep forgetting `dlopen` does not set errno (at least its not guaranteed by the standard).
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> Ok, in this case, I would not analyze the string either because it may be locale-dependent.
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> Never mind then; I'd thought this would be easy. One could probably use load() instead of dlopen() on AIX, but that change would require more investigations to see if load() and dlopen() are equivalent.
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> Okay, in that case just skip the errno test and call the second dlopen directly. Lets hope for the best then.

Sure .thank for all the info. This is great learning.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#discussion_r1494859583