The fat APK's second half was 31 MB that cannot execute on any Android
device. modernc.org/libc's Xlstat64 issues a raw lstat syscall on
linux/amd64, and Android's seccomp policy forbids it because bionic
never issues it, so the process takes SIGSYS the first time anything
touches the database -- which for this app is startup. That is every
x86_64 Android, x86 Chromebooks included, not merely the emulator.
arm64 is structurally unaffected: the architecture has no lstat syscall
at all, so modernc routes through fstatat.
27,059,130 bytes to 15,898,465, and one lib/ entry.
Three places had to agree, and the third is what would have made this a
silent no-op: abiFilters (what Gradle packages), android:package rather
than package:fat (what Go *compiles* -- otherwise the library is still
built and then discarded), and the native-code assertion in CI. That
assertion is anchored, `native-code: 'arm64-v8a'$`, because without the
anchor it also matches the fat APK's line and would pass on exactly the
thing it exists to catch. Checked against a real artifact.
Adding the ABI back, if modernc ever fixes Xlstat64, is those same
three edits.
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