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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• JDK-8320005 needs maintainer approval

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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[suchismith1993]

/approval

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[suchismith1993]

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

[openjdk]

@suchismith1993
8320005: The approval request has been created successfully.

[openjdk]

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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 10 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• fd11382: 8324834: Use _LARGE_FILES on AIX
• f510fe8: 8326891: Prefer RPATH over RUNPATH for $ORIGIN rpaths in internal JDK binaries
• 6b307d7: 8327059: os::Linux::print_proc_sys_info add swappiness information
• f5cfcbb: 8326140: src/jdk.accessibility/windows/native/libjavaaccessbridge/AccessBridgeJavaEntryPoints.cpp ReleaseStringChars might be missing in early returns
• cffdef1: 8326936: RISC-V: Shenandoah GC crashes due to incorrect atomic memory operations
• 6ac9326: 8327391: Add SipHash attribution file
• cebe57d: 8321075: RISC-V: UseSystemMemoryBarrier lacking proper OS support
• 648a161: 8323519: Add applications/ctw/modules to Hotspot tiered testing
• d6fc2b1: 8325862: set -XX:+ErrorFileToStderr when executing java in containers for some container related jtreg tests
• 324d7cc: 8327467: Bump version numbers for 22.0.2

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/integrate

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@suchismith1993
Your change (at version 7f5ec76) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

[TheRealMDoerr]

/sponsor

[openjdk]

Going to push as commit 2e5c300.
Since your change was applied there have been 13 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 9b52a00: 8322943: runtime/CompressedOops/CompressedClassPointers.java fails on AIX
• 244c1d8: 8187759: Background not refreshed when painting over a transparent JFrame
• b2275aa: 8325730: StringBuilder.toString allocation for the empty String
• fd11382: 8324834: Use _LARGE_FILES on AIX
• f510fe8: 8326891: Prefer RPATH over RUNPATH for $ORIGIN rpaths in internal JDK binaries
• 6b307d7: 8327059: os::Linux::print_proc_sys_info add swappiness information
• f5cfcbb: 8326140: src/jdk.accessibility/windows/native/libjavaaccessbridge/AccessBridgeJavaEntryPoints.cpp ReleaseStringChars might be missing in early returns
• cffdef1: 8326936: RISC-V: Shenandoah GC crashes due to incorrect atomic memory operations
• 6ac9326: 8327391: Add SipHash attribution file
• cebe57d: 8321075: RISC-V: UseSystemMemoryBarrier lacking proper OS support
• ... and 3 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk22u/compare/882978f646f27168d17a908a61c8eaa0c7a08481...master

Your commit was automatically rebased without conflicts.

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@TheRealMDoerr @suchismith1993 Pushed as commit 2e5c300.

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