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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: acme@kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, irogers@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] perf report: Support LLVM for addr2line()
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 11:32:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zk8NG10oHcQ0T6EQ@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9d7cjjH63CC8r-z33P4SCWw3x4NMxuSC1CovVHqpp-zXSf6g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 01:46:35PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Great!  Personally I found libbfd is hard to read (and use).  Hope
> that libllvm is better in that pov.  I'm not sure if we all want to
> remove the libbfd dependency but at least we can select one of
> them at build time.  Maybe the same for libelf and libdw(fl) too.

I've never used either before, but I found libllvm pretty
straightforward. The C/C++ interop is a bit painful, though.
(The disassembler has a C interface, but addr2line does not,
from what I could see.)

> Having symbol enumeration and demangling with LLVM would
> be nice but not required to merge this work.  I'll take a deeper
> look next week.  Please post v5.

Posted.

/* Steinar */

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-23  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-20  8:30 [PATCH v4 1/3] perf report: Support LLVM for addr2line() Steinar H. Gunderson
2024-05-20  8:30 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] perf annotate: split out read_symbol() Steinar H. Gunderson
2024-05-20  8:30 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] perf annotate: LLVM-based disassembler Steinar H. Gunderson
2024-05-22 17:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] perf report: Support LLVM for addr2line() Namhyung Kim
2024-05-22 19:50   ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2024-05-22 20:46     ` Namhyung Kim
2024-05-23  9:32       ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2024-05-23 13:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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