Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] perf report: Support LLVM for addr2line()

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

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.

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