[Toybox] Fun with the android NDK.

[enh]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 3:19 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On 09/06/2018 05:46 PM, enh wrote:
> >>> as for the initializations, i'm always happy to see such changes, but
> >>> i haven't needed them personally. i suspect you're using GCC rather
> >>> than clang?
> >>
> >> I used the llvm- prefix.
> >
> > "there be dragons"... we're moving the platform off binutils as i
> > speak, but it's very much a work in progress, and we're finding lots
> > of bugs/differences from binutils.
>
> The 4.18 kernel will not build with this toolchain, by the way.
>
> $ make allnoconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=x86_64.miniconf
> CROSS_COMPILE=~/android/x86_64/bin/llvm-
> arch/x86/Makefile:184: *** Compiler lacks asm-goto support..  Stop.

yeah, a sister team has someone working on that. (we build Pixel
kernels with clang already.)

> Commit e501ce957a78 from january, part of the spectre/meltdown mitigation stuff.
>
> Rob