We used to have a tower of fallbacks to support older Androids that were
missing getauxval. The comments say getauxval is available in Android
API level 20 or higher, but this wasn't right. It's actually API level
18 or higher per the NDK headers and
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/cpu-features
Android API level 18 is Android 4.3, or Jelly Bean MR2. Recent versions
of the NDK (starting r24, March 2022) don't even support Jelly Bean,
i.e. the minimum API level is 19, and the usage statistics in the latest
Android Studio stop at KitKat. As far as I know, nothing needs us to
support API levels 17 and below anymore.
Update-Note: BoringSSL now requires API level 18 or later. Projects
needing to support API level of 17 or below will fail to build due to
the use of getauxval. If any such projects exist, please contact
BoringSSL maintainers.
Change-Id: Iedc4836ffd701428ab6d11253d4ebd5a9121e667
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/57506
Reviewed-by: Bob Beck <bbe@google.com>
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
David Benjamin