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

[suchismith1993]

Hi all,

This pull request contains a backport of commit e85355ad from the openjdk/jdk repository.

The commit being backported was authored by Suchismith Roy on 27 Feb 2024 and was reviewed by Amit Kumar, Thomas Stuefe, Joachim Kern and Martin Doerr.

Thanks!

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Issue

• JDK-8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX (Bug - P4 - Approved)

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This backport pull request has now been updated with issue from the original commit.

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⚠️ @suchismith1993 This change is now ready for you to apply for maintainer approval. This can be done directly in each associated issue or by using the /approval command.

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/approval e85355ada4ac1061c49ee9f1247d37a437c7b5ab request

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/approval request This back port is required to handle dynamic libraries of AIX.

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8320005: The approval request has been created successfully.

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@suchismith1993 This change now passes all automated pre-integration checks.

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

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 23 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 624e603: 8315834: Open source several Swing JSpinner related tests
• 066af44: 8325137: com/sun/management/ThreadMXBean/ThreadCpuTimeArray.java can fail in Xcomp with out of expected range
• 8e439ba: 8317287: [macos14] InterJVMGetDropSuccessTest.java: Child VM: abnormal termination
• 9a8d91a: 8315677: Open source few swing JFileChooser and other tests
• c4c4b22: 8325326: [PPC64] Don't relocate in case of allocation failure
• c26cad3: 8278527: java/util/concurrent/tck/JSR166TestCase.java fails nanoTime test
• 315d051: 8314828: Mark 3 jcmd command-line options test as vm.flagless
• ab6e027: 8320712: Rewrite BadFactoryTest in pure Java
• 40f0254: 8323276: StressDirListings.java fails on AIX
• d4823c2: 8322477: order of subclasses in the permits clause can differ between compilations
• ... and 13 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk21u-dev/compare/930344ad6fb9762fde0636d9042e3350ee90b9cf...master

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/integrate

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@suchismith1993
Your change (at version b12b8fd) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

[TheRealMDoerr]

/sponsor

[openjdk]

Going to push as commit c80be84.
Since your change was applied there have been 36 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 44fdfc7: 8326101: [PPC64] Need to bailout cleanly if creation of stubs fails when code cache is out of space
• c8e9f1d: 8320113: [macos14] : ShapeNotSetSometimes.java fails intermittently on macOS 14
• 7f5afa1: 8326891: Prefer RPATH over RUNPATH for $ORIGIN rpaths in internal JDK binaries
• 7505194: 8320342: Use PassFailJFrame for TruncatedPopupMenuTest.java
• 779204c: 8320570: NegativeArraySizeException decoding >1G UTF8 bytes with non-ascii characters
• d4e336d: 8321075: RISC-V: UseSystemMemoryBarrier lacking proper OS support
• e2858b5: 8326685: Linux builds not reproducible if two builds configured in different build folders
• 8f08066: 8266242: java/awt/GraphicsDevice/CheckDisplayModes.java failing on macOS 11 ARM
• a75d19d: 8318455: Fix the compiler/sharedstubs/SharedTrampolineTest.java and SharedStubToInterpTest.java
• c0b5fdf: 8326140: src/jdk.accessibility/windows/native/libjavaaccessbridge/AccessBridgeJavaEntryPoints.cpp ReleaseStringChars might be missing in early returns
• ... and 26 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk21u-dev/compare/930344ad6fb9762fde0636d9042e3350ee90b9cf...master

Your commit was automatically rebased without conflicts.

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@TheRealMDoerr @suchismith1993 Pushed as commit c80be84.

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