This patch adds a `-Z linker-flavor` flag to rustc which can be used to invoke
the linker using a different interface.
For example, by default rustc assumes that all the Linux targets will be linked
using GCC. This makes it impossible to use LLD as a linker using just `-C
linker=ld.lld` because that will invoke LLD with invalid command line
arguments. (e.g. rustc will pass -Wl,--gc-sections to LLD but LLD doesn't
understand that; --gc-sections would be the right argument)
With this patch one can pass `-Z linker-flavor=ld` to rustc to invoke the linker
using a LD-like interface. This way, `rustc -C linker=ld.lld -Z
linker-flavor=ld` will invoke LLD with the right arguments.
`-Z linker-flavor` accepts 4 different arguments: `em` (emcc), `ld`,
`gcc`, `msvc` (link.exe). `em`, `gnu` and `msvc` cover all the existing linker
interfaces. `ld` is a new flavor for interfacing GNU's ld and LLD.
This patch also changes target specifications. `linker-flavor` is now a
mandatory field that specifies the *default* linker flavor that the target will
use. This change also makes the linker interface *explicit*; before, it used to
be derived from other fields like linker-is-gnu, is-like-msvc,
is-like-emscripten, etc.
Another change to target specifications is that the fields `pre-link-args`,
`post-link-args` and `late-link-args` now expect a map from flavor to linker
arguments.
``` diff
- "pre-link-args": ["-Wl,--as-needed", "-Wl,-z,-noexecstack"],
+ "pre-link-args": {
+ "gcc": ["-Wl,--as-needed", "-Wl,-z,-noexecstack"],
+ "ld": ["--as-needed", "-z,-noexecstack"],
+ },
```
[breaking-change] for users of custom targets specifications
Sounds like jemalloc is broken on systems which differ in page size than the
host it was compiled on (unless an option was passed). This unfortunately
reduces the portability of binaries created and can often make Rust segfault by
default. For now let's patch over this by disabling jemalloc until we can figure
out a better solution.
Closes#36994Closes#37320
cc jemalloc/jemalloc#467
Convert built-in targets to JSON
Convert the built-in targets to JSON to ensure that the JSON parser is always fully featured. This follows on #32988 and #32847. The PR includes a number of extra commits that are just intermediate changes necessary for bisectibility and the ability to prove correctness of the change.
Change all the target generation functions to return a Result<Target,
String> so that targets that are unable to be instantiated can be
expressed as an Err instead of a panic!(). This should improve #33497 as
well.
This target covers MIPS devices that run the trunk version of OpenWRT.
The x86_64-unknown-linux-musl target always links statically to C libraries. For
the mips(el)-unknown-linux-musl target, we opt for dynamic linking (like most of
other targets do) to keep binary size down.
As for the C compiler flags used in the build system, we use the same flags used
for the mips(el)-unknown-linux-gnu target.
