Re: [PATCH v2] perf docs: Mark the Android document as obsolete

[Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>]

On 7/15/24 22:21, Ian Rogers wrote:

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> Hmm.. I can repro but I don't see where the string comes from and my
> build is definitely using clang:
> ```
> $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- -C tools/perf
> O=/tmp/perf NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 CC=clang
> CXX=clang++ V=1
> ...
> clang --target=aarch64-linux-gnu -fintegrated-as  -Wbad-function-cast
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k
> -Winit-self -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wno-system-headers -Wold-style-definition -Wpacked -Wredundant-decls
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch-default -Wswitch-enum -Wundef
> -Wwrite-strings -Wformat -Wno-type-limits -Wshadow -Wthread-safety
> -DHAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT -I/tmp/perf/arch/arm64/include/generated
> -DHAVE_ARCH_REGS_QUERY_REGISTER_OFFSET -Werror -DNDEBUG=1 -O3
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu11 -fstack-protector-all
> -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -I~/src/tools/perf/util/include
> -I~/src/tools/perf/arch/arm64/include -I~/src/tools/include/
> -I~/src/tools/arch/arm64/include/uapi -I~/src/tools/include/uapi
> -I~/src/tools/arch/arm64/include/ -I~/src/tools/arch/arm64/
> -I/tmp/perf//util -I/tmp/perf/ -I~/src/tools/perf/util
> -I~/src/tools/perf -DHAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETAFFINITY_NP
> -DHAVE_PTHREAD_BARRIER -DHAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT
> -DHAVE_GET_CURRENT_DIR_NAME -DHAVE_GETTID -DHAVE_FILE_HANDLE
> -DHAVE_AIO_SUPPORT -DHAVE_SCANDIRAT_SUPPORT
> -DHAVE_SCHED_GETCPU_SUPPORT -DHAVE_SETNS_SUPPORT -DNO_LIBPERL
> -DHAVE_TIMERFD_SUPPORT -DNO_LIBPYTHON -DHAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
> -DHAVE_KVM_STAT_SUPPORT -DHAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
> -I/tmp/perf/libapi/include -I/tmp/perf/libsubcmd/include
> -I/tmp/perf/libsymbol/include -I/tmp/perf/libperf/include -I/tmp/perf/
> -Wl,-z,noexecstack \
>          /tmp/perf/perf-in.o -Wl,--whole-archive
> /tmp/perf/libapi/libapi.a /tmp/perf/libperf/libperf.a
> /tmp/perf/libsubcmd/libsubcmd.a /tmp/perf/libsymbol/libsymbol.a
> /tmp/perf/libperf-bench.a /tmp/perf/libperf-test.a
> /tmp/perf/libperf-ui.a /tmp/perf/libperf-util.a
> /tmp/perf/libpmu-events.a  -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,--start-group
> -lpthread -lrt -lm -ldl -Wl,--end-group -o /tmp/perf/perf
> $ strings /tmp/perf/perf|grep GCC
> GCC: (Debian 13.2.0-13) 13.2.0
> $ find /tmp/perf -name '*.[oa]' -exec sh -c "strings {} | grep GCC" \; -print
> GCC: (Debian 13.2.0-13) 13.2.0
> /tmp/perf/fixdep.o
> GCC: (Debian 13.2.0-13) 13.2.0
> /tmp/perf/fixdep-in.o
> ```
> fixdep is being compiled with HOSTCC which isn't clang. Some more digging:
> ```
> $ aarch64-linux-gnu-readelf -p .comment /tmp/perf/perf
> 
> String dump of section '.comment':
>   [     0]  GCC: (Debian 13.2.0-13) 13.2.0
>   [    1f]  Debian clang version 16.0.6 (20+build1)
> ```
> So I suspect that the GCC is coming from crt0.o and that the binary
> was built with clang.

Thanks for correcting. Now I even can build successfully with the Clang
from Android NDK with an additional flag 'NO_DEMANGLE=1'. Though we still
need to disable several modules for passing the building, but we are on the 
right way.

Would you like to continue a formal fixing or you want me to follow up?

Thanks,
Leo