The compiler currently vendors its own version of "llvm-ar" (not literally the
binary but rather the library support) and uses it for all major targets by
default (e.g. everything defined in `src/librustc_back/target`). All custom
target specs, however, still search for an `ar` tool by default. This commit
changes this default behavior to using the internally bundled llvm-ar with the
GNU format.
Currently all targets use the GNU format except for OSX which uses the BSD
format (surely makes sense, right?), and custom targets can change the format
via the `archive-format` key in custom target specs.
I suspect that we can outright remove support for invoking an external `ar`
utility, but I figure for now there may be some crazy target relying on that so
we should leave support in for now.
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)
Updates our LLVM bindings to be able to write out multiple kinds of archives.
This commit also enables using LLVM instead of the system ar on all current
targets.
