Integrated: JDK-8320005 : Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX

[Suchismith Roy]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:28:46 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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: e85355ad
Author:    Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org>
Committer: Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/e85355ada4ac1061c49ee9f1247d37a437c7b5ab
Stats:     22 lines in 1 file changed: 20 ins; 1 del; 1 mod

8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX

Reviewed-by: amitkumar, stuefe, jkern, mdoerr

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604