RFR: JDK-8320005 : Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX [v28]

[Martin Doerr]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:31:15 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.
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> Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   indendt

jdk21u is only open for critical backports and requires special approval. Please backport it to jdk21u-dev. What about jdk22u?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#issuecomment-1978239031