<div dir="ltr">futimens() is available in Android KitKat. We work extensively with LLVM and this allowed us to remove our ugly workaround for not having this functionality.<div><br></div><div>Steve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:30 AM, James Lyon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameslyon0@gmail.com" target="_blank">jameslyon0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I've been trying to get LLVM working as a JIT compiler on Android
for a while. It works now, except that the
setLastModificationAndAccessTime function won't build because the
Bionic C library lacks both futimes and futimens. There doesn't
appear to be any "nice" workaround for this problem: the only ways I
can think of to make setLastModificationAndAccessTime work are
either to go by /proc/self/fd or invoke the system call directly
(the second option isn't helped by the fact that the Android headers
don't define the relevant system call number and it varies between
platforms).<br>
<br>
Right now the only part of LLVM that uses this function is llvm-ar,
so it's not as if lack of support for this function is a serious
shortcoming. I don't really know the history of PathV1/PathV2 but I
think the simplest solutions are:<br>
<ol>
<li>Have setLastModificationAndAccessTime fail on platforms
without futimes/futimens (by ENOSYS). This is pretty ugly
because having a function which can never succeed seems likely
to confuse users.</li>
<li>Only declare setLastModificationAndAccessTime if it is
actually available (add something to llvm-config.h to indicate
this). The downside here is that (in theory at least) users need
to know that setLastModificationAndAccessTime might be missing,
although in practise they can probably ignore the issue.<br>
</li>
</ol>
(1) is trivial to implement and is what I'm doing now; I can also
create a patch to do (2), I just thought I'd ask for opinions first.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
James<br>
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