This is in preparation for making discriminants not always be int (#1647), but it also makes compiles for a 64-bit target not behave differently — with respect to how many bits of discriminants are preserved — depending on the build host's word size, which is a nice property to have.
We may want to standardize how to abbreviate "discriminant" in a followup change.
These new macros are all based on format! instead of fmt! and purely exist for
bootstrapping purposes. After the next snapshot, all uses of logging will be
migrated to these macros, and then after the next snapshot after that we can
drop the `2` suffix on everything
This resolves issue #908.
Notable changes:
- On Windows, LLVM integrated assembler emits bad stack unwind tables when segmented stacks are enabled. However, unwind info directives in the assembly output are correct, so we generate assembly first and then run it through an external assembler, just like it is already done for Android builds.
- Linker is invoked via "g++" command instead of "gcc": g++ passes the appropriate magic parameters to the linker, which ensure correct registration of stack unwind tables in dynamic libraries.
For #7083.
The metadata issue with the old version is now fixed. Ready for review.
This is also not the full solution to #7083, because this is not supported yet:
```
trait Foo : Send { }
impl <T: Send> Foo for T { }
fn foo<T: Foo>(val: T, chan: std::comm::Chan<T>) {
chan.send(val);
}
```
cc @nikomatsakis
Long-standing branch to remove foreign function wrappers altogether. Calls to C functions are done "in place" with no stack manipulation; the scheme relies entirely on the correct use of `#[fixed_stack_segment]` to guarantee adequate stack space. A linter is added to detect when `#[fixed_stack_segment]` annotations are missing. An `externfn!` macro is added to make it easier to declare foreign fns and wrappers in one go: this macro may need some refinement, though, for example it might be good to be able to declare a group of foreign fns. I leave that for future work (hopefully somebody else's work :) ).
Fixes#3678.
See discussion in #8489, but this selects option 3 by adding a `Default` trait to be implemented by various basic types.
Once this makes it into a snapshot I think it's about time to start overhauling all current use-cases of `fmt!` to move towards `ifmt!`. The goal is to replace `%X` with `{}` in 90% of situations, and this commit should enable that.
