Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools, perf: Add a precise event qualifier v2

[Andi Kleen]

> Typically PMU drivers are per arch and all the format stuff is per pmu
> driver so I'd not worry about that just yet.

That's a good point. So hard coded numbers would be fine for now.

> Yes, that is an unfortunate situation. I (and either Acme or Jolsa)
> tried wrapping the bitfield in an anonymous union to create a named
> variable for the entire u64 but older GCC completely fails with that.

In theory it's possible by parsing readelf output.

-Andi

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