From the test logs, other extern-fn-* tests have this:
[run-make] tests/run-make/extern-fn-with-packed-struct ... ignored, ignored when cross-compiling
[run-make] tests/run-make/extern-fn-with-union ... ignored, ignored when cross-compiling
[run-make] tests/run-make/extern-multiple-copies ... ignored, ignored when cross-compiling
[run-make] tests/run-make/extern-multiple-copies2 ... ignored, ignored when cross-compiling
[run-make] tests/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution ... ignored, ignored when cross-compiling
[run-make] tests/run-make/extra-filename-with-temp-outputs ... ignored, ignored when cross-compiling
[run-make] tests/run-make/extern-fn-explicit-align ... FAILED
alignment of `byval` on x86 in the process.
Commit 88e4d2c291 from five years ago removed
support for alignment on indirectly-passed arguments because of problems with
the `i686-pc-windows-msvc` target. Unfortunately, the `memcpy` optimizations I
recently added to LLVM 16 depend on this to forward `memcpy`s. This commit
attempts to fix the problems with `byval` parameters on that target and now
correctly adds the `align` attribute.
The problem is summarized in [this comment] by @eddyb. Briefly, 32-bit x86 has
special alignment rules for `byval` parameters: for the most part, their
alignment is forced to 4. This is not well-documented anywhere but in the Clang
source. I looked at the logic in Clang `TargetInfo.cpp` and tried to replicate
it here. The relevant methods in that file are
`X86_32ABIInfo::getIndirectResult()` and
`X86_32ABIInfo::getTypeStackAlignInBytes()`. The `align` parameter attribute
for `byval` parameters in LLVM must match the platform ABI, or miscompilations
will occur. Note that this doesn't use the approach suggested by eddyb, because
I felt it was overkill to store the alignment in `on_stack` when special
handling is really only needed for 32-bit x86.
As a side effect, this should fix#80127, because it will make the `align`
parameter attribute for `byval` parameters match the platform ABI on LLVM
x86-64.
[this comment]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/80822#issuecomment-829985417
