This commit removes all morestack support from the compiler which entails:
* Segmented stacks are no longer emitted in codegen.
* We no longer build or distribute libmorestack.a
* The `stack_exhausted` lang item is no longer required
The only current use of the segmented stack support in LLVM is to detect stack
overflow. This is no longer really required, however, because we already have
guard pages for all threads and registered signal handlers watching for a
segfault on those pages (to print out a stack overflow message). Additionally,
major platforms (aka Windows) already don't use morestack.
This means that Rust is by default less likely to catch stack overflows because
if a function takes up more than one page of stack space it won't hit the guard
page. This is what the purpose of morestack was (to catch this case), but it's
better served with stack probes which have more cross platform support and no
runtime support necessary. Until LLVM supports this for all platform it looks
like morestack isn't really buying us much.
cc #16012 (still need stack probes)
Closes#26458 (a drive-by fix to help diagnostics on stack overflow)
TyClosure variant; thread this through wherever closure substitutions
are expected, which leads to a net simplification. Simplify trans
treatment of closures in particular.
This commit finalizes the work of the past commits by fully moving the fulfillment context into
the InferCtxt, cleaning up related context interfaces, removing the Typer and ClosureTyper
traits and cleaning up related intefaces
This has a number of advantages compared to creating a copy in memory
and passing a pointer. The obvious one is that we don't have to put the
data into memory but can keep it in registers. Since we're currently
passing a pointer anyway (instead of using e.g. a known offset on the
stack, which is what the `byval` attribute would achieve), we only use a
single additional register for each fat pointer, but save at least two
pointers worth of stack in exchange (sometimes more because more than
one copy gets eliminated). On archs that pass arguments on the stack, we
save a pointer worth of stack even without considering the omitted
copies.
Additionally, LLVM can optimize the code a lot better, to a large degree
due to the fact that lots of copies are gone or can be optimized away.
Additionally, we can now emit attributes like nonnull on the data and/or
vtable pointers contained in the fat pointer, potentially allowing for
even more optimizations.
This results in LLVM passes being about 3-7% faster (depending on the
crate), and the resulting code is also a few percent smaller, for
example:
text data filename
5671479 3941461 before/librustc-d8ace771.so
5447663 3905745 after/librustc-d8ace771.so
1944425 2394024 before/libstd-d8ace771.so
1896769 2387610 after/libstd-d8ace771.so
I had to remove a call in the backtrace-debuginfo test, because LLVM can
now merge the tails of some blocks when optimizations are turned on,
which can't correctly preserve line info.
Fixes#22924
Cc #22891 (at least for fat pointers the code is good now)
This commit updates the LLVM submodule in use to the current HEAD of the LLVM
repository. This is primarily being done to start picking up unwinding support
for MSVC, which is currently unimplemented in the revision of LLVM we are using.
Along the way a few changes had to be made:
* As usual, lots of C++ debuginfo bindings in LLVM changed, so there were some
significant changes to our RustWrapper.cpp
* As usual, some pass management changed in LLVM, so clang was re-scrutinized to
ensure that we're doing the same thing as clang.
* Some optimization options are now passed directly into the
`PassManagerBuilder` instead of through CLI switches to LLVM.
* The `NoFramePointerElim` option was removed from LLVM, favoring instead the
`no-frame-pointer-elim` function attribute instead.
* The `LoopVectorize` option of the LLVM optimization passes has been disabled
as it causes a divide-by-zero exception to happen in LLVM for zero-sized
types. This is reported as https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23763
Additionally, LLVM has picked up some new optimizations which required fixing an
existing soundness hole in the IR we generate. It appears that the current LLVM
we use does not expose this hole. When an enum is moved, the previous slot in
memory is overwritten with a bit pattern corresponding to "dropped". When the
drop glue for this slot is run, however, the switch on the discriminant can
often start executing the `unreachable` block of the switch due to the
discriminant now being outside the normal range. This was patched over locally
for now by having the `unreachable` block just change to a `ret void`.
This commit updates the LLVM submodule in use to the current HEAD of the LLVM
repository. This is primarily being done to start picking up unwinding support
for MSVC, which is currently unimplemented in the revision of LLVM we are using.
Along the way a few changes had to be made:
* As usual, lots of C++ debuginfo bindings in LLVM changed, so there were some
significant changes to our RustWrapper.cpp
* As usual, some pass management changed in LLVM, so clang was re-scrutinized to
ensure that we're doing the same thing as clang.
* Some optimization options are now passed directly into the
`PassManagerBuilder` instead of through CLI switches to LLVM.
* The `NoFramePointerElim` option was removed from LLVM, favoring instead the
`no-frame-pointer-elim` function attribute instead.
Additionally, LLVM has picked up some new optimizations which required fixing an
existing soundness hole in the IR we generate. It appears that the current LLVM
we use does not expose this hole. When an enum is moved, the previous slot in
memory is overwritten with a bit pattern corresponding to "dropped". When the
drop glue for this slot is run, however, the switch on the discriminant can
often start executing the `unreachable` block of the switch due to the
discriminant now being outside the normal range. This was patched over locally
for now by having the `unreachable` block just change to a `ret void`.
There were still some mentions of `~[T]` and `~T`, mostly in comments and debugging statements. I tried to do my best to preserve meaning, but I might have gotten some wrong-- I'm happy to fix anything :)
