Ever since we added a Cargo-based build system for the compiler the
standard library has always been a little special, it's never been able
to depend on crates.io crates for runtime dependencies. This has been a
result of various limitations, namely that Cargo doesn't understand that
crates from crates.io depend on libcore, so Cargo tries to build crates
before libcore is finished.
I had an idea this afternoon, however, which lifts the strategy
from #52919 to directly depend on crates.io crates from the standard
library. After all is said and done this removes a whopping three
submodules that we need to manage!
The basic idea here is that for any crate `std` depends on it adds an
*optional* dependency on an empty crate on crates.io, in this case named
`rustc-std-workspace-core`. This crate is overridden via `[patch]` in
this repository to point to a local crate we write, and *that* has a
`path` dependency on libcore.
Note that all `no_std` crates also depend on `compiler_builtins`, but if
we're not using submodules we can publish `compiler_builtins` to
crates.io and all crates can depend on it anyway! The basic strategy
then looks like:
* The standard library (or some transitive dep) decides to depend on a
crate `foo`.
* The standard library adds
```toml
[dependencies]
foo = { version = "0.1", features = ['rustc-dep-of-std'] }
```
* The crate `foo` has an optional dependency on `rustc-std-workspace-core`
* The crate `foo` has an optional dependency on `compiler_builtins`
* The crate `foo` has a feature `rustc-dep-of-std` which activates these
crates and any other necessary infrastructure in the crate.
A sample commit for `dlmalloc` [turns out to be quite simple][commit].
After that all `no_std` crates should largely build "as is" and still be
publishable on crates.io! Notably they should be able to continue to use
stable Rust if necessary, since the `rename-dependency` feature of Cargo
is soon stabilizing.
As a proof of concept, this commit removes the `dlmalloc`,
`libcompiler_builtins`, and `libc` submodules from this repository. Long
thorns in our side these are now gone for good and we can directly
depend on crates.io! It's hoped that in the long term we can bring in
other crates as necessary, but for now this is largely intended to
simply make it easier to manage these crates and remove submodules.
This should be a transparent non-breaking change for all users, but one
possible stickler is that this almost for sure breaks out-of-tree
`std`-building tools like `xargo` and `cargo-xbuild`. I think it should
be relatively easy to get them working, however, as all that's needed is
an entry in the `[patch]` section used to build the standard library.
Hopefully we can work with these tools to solve this problem!
[commit]: 28ee12db81
`FileSearch::search()` traverses one or more directories. For each
directory it generates a `Vec<PathBuf>` containing one element per file
in that directory.
In some benchmarks this occurs enough that the allocations done for the
`PathBuf`s are significant, and in practice a small number of
directories are being traversed over and over again. For example, when
compiling the `tokio-webpush-simple` benchmark, two directories are
traversed 58 times each. Each of these directories have more than 100
files.
This commit changes things so that all the `Vec<PathBuf>`s that will be
needed by a `Session` are precomputed when that `Session` is created;
they are stored in `SearchPath`. `FileSearch` gets a reference to the
necessary `SearchPath`s. This reduces instruction counts on several
benchmarks by 1--5%.
The commit also removes the barely-used `visited_dirs` hash in
`for_each_lib_searchPath`. It only detects if `tlib_path` is the same as
one of the previously seen paths, which is unlikely.
Instead of maybe storing its own sysroot and maybe deferring to the one
in `Session::opts`, just clone the latter when necessary so one is
always directly available. This removes the need for the getter.
This shrinks `Option<Symbol>` from 8 bytes to 4 bytes, which shrinks
`Token` from 24 bytes to 16 bytes. This reduces instruction counts by up
to 1% across a range of benchmarks.
Test with gdb8.2 and add debuginfo printing function call test
As far as I can see, `print function()` is not tested. It is important feature for debugging.
Initially, #50233 accidentally changed the capacity of empty ZST. This
was pointed out during code review. This commit adds a test to prevent
capacity of ZST vectors from accidentally changing to prevent that
from happening again.
libtest: Use deterministic HashMap, avoid spawning thread if there is no concurrency
It seems desirable to make a test and bench runner deterministic, which this achieves by using a deterministic hasher. Also, we we only have 1 thread, we don't bother spawning one and just use the main thread.
The motivation for this is to be able to run the test harness in miri, where we can neither access the OS RNG, nor spawn threads.
