On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:36:49 GMT, Suchismith Roy <s...@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. > > Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with three > additional commits since the last revision: > > - Update porting_aix.cpp > - Update porting_aix.cpp > - Update os_aix.cpp I think a comment like this would be ideal: Search order: "library.so" -> load "library.so", then "library.a" "library" -> load "library.so", then "library.a" ? "library.a" -> only load "library.a" ? (If that's correct.) I prefer that over a very verbose version. + References to Spec and J9 of course. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16604#issuecomment-1911737129