RFR: JDK-8320005 : Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v7]

[Joachim Kern]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:43:34 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp line 1168:
>> 
>>> 1166:   int extension_length = 3;
>>> 1167:   char* file_path = NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY(char, buffer_length + extension_length + 1, mtInternal);
>>> 1168:   strncpy(file_path,filename, buffer_length + 1);
>> 
>> Why not using 
>> `char* file_path = os::strdup (filename);`
>> which would replace lines 1167+1168
>> and use the corresponding 
>> `os::free (file_path);`
>> at the end
>
> Ok. Any performance advantage to using that ?

No, I do not believe that it has performance advantage, but I think it is simpler to understand.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#discussion_r1453249951