signal(), sigemptyset(), and sigaddset() are only available as inline
functions until Android API 21. liblibc already handles signal()
appropriately, so drop it from c.rs; translate sigemptyset() and
sigaddset() (which is only used in a test) by hand from the C inlines.
We probably want to revert this commit when we bump Android API level.
Make sure that child processes don't get affected by libstd's desire to
ignore SIGPIPE, nor a third-party library's signal mask (which is needed
to use either a signal-handling thread correctly or to use signalfd /
kqueue correctly).
Both c.rs and stack_overflow.rs had bindings of libc's signal-handling
routines. It looks like the split dated from #16388, when (what is now)
c.rs was in libnative but not libgreen. Nobody is currently using the
c.rs bindings, but they're a bit more accurate in some places.
Move everything to c.rs (since I'll need signal handling in process.rs,
and we should avoid duplication), clean up the bindings, and manually
double-check everything against the relevant system headers (fixing a
few things in the process).
It looks like a lot of this dated to previous incarnations of the io
module, etc., and went unused in the reworking leading up to 1.0. Remove
everything we're not actively using (except for signal handling, which
will be reworked in the next commit).
The `execv` family of functions and `getopt` are prototyped somewhat strangely in C: they take a `char *const argv[]` (and `envp`, for `execve`), an immutable array of mutable C strings -- in other words, a `char *const *argv` or `argv: *const *mut c_char`. The current Rust binding uses `*mut *const c_char`, which is backwards (a mutable array of constant C strings).
That said, these functions do not actually modify their arguments. Once upon a time, C didn't have `const`, and to this day, string literals in C have type `char *` (`*mut c_char`). So an array of string literals has type `char * []`, equivalent to `char **` in a function parameter (Rust `*mut *mut c_char`). C allows an implicit cast from `T **` to `T * const *` (`*const *mut T`) but not to `const T * const *` (`*const *const T`). Therefore, prototyping `execv` as taking `const char * const argv[]` would have broken existing code (by requiring an explicit cast), despite being more correct. So, even though these functions don't need mutable data, they're prototyped as if they do.
While it's theoretically possible that an implementation could choose to use its freedom to modify the mutable data, such an implementation would break the innumerable users of `execv`-family functions that call them with string literals. Such an implementation would also break `std::process`, which currently works around this with an unsafe `as *mut _` cast, and assumes that `execvp` secretly does not modify its argument. Furthermore, there's nothing useful to be gained by being able to write to the strings in `argv` themselves but not being able to write to the array containing those strings (you can't reorder arguments, add arguments, increase the length of any parameter, etc.).
So, despite the C prototype with its legacy C problems, it's simpler for everyone for Rust to consider these functions as taking `*const *const c_char`, and it's also safe to do so. Rust does not need to expose the mistakes of C here. This patch makes that change, and drops the unsafe cast in `std::process` since it's now unnecessary.
The documentation of `std::net::Shutdown` mentions says it can be passed to the `shutdown` method of `UdpSocket`, which isn't true because `UdpSocket` has no such method. This commit removes that mention.
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/26408
Example output when using `Result::unwrap`:
```
thread '<main>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error { repr: Os { code: 2, message: "The system cannot find the file specified.\r\n" } }', src/libcore\result.rs:731
```
This could technically be considered a breaking change for any code that depends on the format of the `Debug` output for `io::Error` but I sincerely hope nobody wrote code like that.
The execv family of functions do not modify their arguments, so they do
not need mutable pointers. The C prototypes take a constant array of
mutable C-strings, but that's a legacy quirk from before C had const
(since C string literals have type `char *`). The Rust prototypes had
`*mut` in the wrong place, anyway: to match the C prototypes, it should
have been `*const *mut c_char`. But it is safe to pass constant strings
(like string literals) to these functions.
getopt is a special case, since GNU getopt modifies its arguments
despite the `const` claim in the prototype. It is apparently only
well-defined to call getopt on the actual argc and argv parameters
passed to main, anyway. Change it to take `*mut *mut c_char` for an
attempt at safety, but probably nobody should be using it from Rust,
since there's no great way to get at the parameters as passed to main.
Also fix the one caller of execvp in libstd, which now no longer needs
an unsafe cast.
Fixes#16290.
This commit shards the all-encompassing `core`, `std_misc`, `collections`, and `alloc` features into finer-grained components that are much more easily opted into and tracked. This reflects the effort to push forward current unstable APIs to either stabilization or removal. Keeping track of unstable features on a much more fine-grained basis will enable the library subteam to quickly analyze a feature and help prioritize internally about what APIs should be stabilized.
A few assorted APIs were deprecated along the way, but otherwise this change is just changing the feature name associated with each API. Soon we will have a dashboard for keeping track of all the unstable APIs in the standard library, and I'll also start making issues for each unstable API after performing a first-pass for stabilization.
The `thread::scoped` function will never be stabilized as-is and the API will
likely change significantly if it does, so this function is deprecated for
removal.
This function follows the well-established "constructor" pattern and the
initialization constant will likely be deprecated in favor of it once `const_fn`
is stabilized.
This commit shards the broad `core` feature of the libcore library into finer
grained features. This split groups together similar APIs and enables tracking
each API separately, giving a better sense of where each feature is within the
stabilization process.
A few minor APIs were deprecated along the way:
* Iterator::reverse_in_place
* marker::NoCopy
Currently the compiler has no knowledge of `#[thread_local]` which forces users
to take on two burdens of unsafety:
* The lifetime of the borrow of a `#[thread_local]` static is **not** `'static`
* Types in `static`s are required to be `Sync`
The thread-local modules mostly curb these facets of unsafety by only allowing
very limited scopes of borrows as well as allowing all types to be stored in a
thread-local key (regardless of whether they are `Sync`) through an `unsafe
impl`.
Unfortunately these measures have the consequence of being able to take the
address of the key itself and send it to another thread, allowing the same key
to be accessed from two different threads. This is clearly unsafe, and this
commit fixes this problem with the same trick used by `LocalKey`, which is to
have an indirect function call to find the address of the *current thread's*
thread local. This way the address of thread local keys can safely be sent among
threads as their lifetime truly is `'static`.
This commit will reduce the performance of cross-crate scoped thread locals as
it now requires an indirect function call, but this can likely be overcome in a
future commit.
Closes#25894
Closes#25977
The various `stdfoo_raw` methods in std::io now return `io::Result`s,
since they may not exist on Windows. They will always return `Ok` on
Unix-like platforms.
[breaking-change]
Closes#25977
The various `stdfoo_raw` methods in std::io now return `io::Result`s,
since they may not exist on Windows. They will always return `Ok` on
Unix-like platforms.
[breaking-change]
This commit stabilizes the following APIs, slating them all to be cherry-picked
into the 1.1 release.
* fs::FileType (and transitively the derived trait implementations)
* fs::Metadata::file_type
* fs::FileType::is_dir
* fs::FileType::is_file
* fs::FileType::is_symlink
* fs::DirEntry::metadata
* fs::DirEntry::file_type
* fs::DirEntry::file_name
* fs::set_permissions
* fs::symlink_metadata
* os::raw::{self, *}
* os::{android, bitrig, linux, ...}::raw::{self, *}
* os::{android, bitrig, linux, ...}::fs::MetadataExt
* os::{android, bitrig, linux, ...}::fs::MetadataExt::as_raw_stat
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt::mode
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt::set_mode
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt::from_mode
* os::unix::fs::OpenOptionsExt
* os::unix::fs::OpenOptionsExt::mode
* os::unix::fs::DirEntryExt
* os::unix::fs::DirEntryExt::ino
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::file_attributes
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::creation_time
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::last_access_time
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::last_write_time
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::file_size
The `os::unix::fs::Metadata` structure was also removed entirely, moving all of
its associated methods into the `os::unix::fs::MetadataExt` trait instead. The
methods are all marked as `#[stable]` still.
As some minor cleanup, some deprecated and unstable fs apis were also removed:
* File::path
* Metadata::accessed
* Metadata::modified
Features that were explicitly left unstable include:
* fs::WalkDir - the semantics of this were not considered in the recent fs
expansion RFC.
* fs::DirBuilder - it's still not 100% clear if the naming is right here and if
the set of functionality exposed is appropriate.
* fs::canonicalize - the implementation on Windows here is specifically in
question as it always returns a verbatim path. Additionally the Unix
implementation is susceptible to buffer overflows on long paths unfortunately.
* fs::PathExt - as this is just a convenience trait, it is not stabilized at
this time.
* fs::set_file_times - this funciton is still waiting on a time abstraction.
* Slate these features to be stable in 1.2 instead of 1.1 (not being backported)
* Have the `FromRawFd` implementations follow the contract of the `FromRawFd`
trait by taking ownership of the primitive specified.
* Refactor the implementations slightly to remove the `unreachable!` blocks as
well as separating the stdio representation of `std::process` from
`std::sys::process`.
cc #25494
As far as I was able to determine, it's currently *impossible* to allocate a C NUL-terminated string in Rust and then return it to C (transferring ownership), without leaking memory. There is support for passing the string to C (borrowing).
To complicate matters, it's not possible for the C code to just call `free` on the allocated string, due to the different allocators in use.
`CString` has no way to recreate itself from a pointer. This commit adds one. This is complicated a bit because Rust `Vec`s want the pointer, size, and capacity.
To deal with that, another method to shrink and "leak" the `CString` to a `char *` is also provided.
We can then use `strlen` to determine the length of the string, which must match the capacity.
**TODO**
- [x] Improve documentation
- [x] Add stability markers
- [x] Convert to `Box<[u8]>`
### Example code
With this example code:
```rust
#![feature(libc)]
#![feature(cstr_to_str)]
#![feature(c_str_memory)]
extern crate libc;
use std::ffi::{CStr,CString};
#[no_mangle]
pub extern fn reverse(s: *const libc::c_char) -> *const libc::c_char {
let s = unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(s) };
let s2 = s.to_str().unwrap();
let s3: String = s2.chars().rev().collect();
let s4 = CString::new(s3).unwrap();
s4.into_ptr()
}
#[no_mangle]
pub extern fn cleanup(s: *const libc::c_char) {
unsafe { CString::from_ptr(s) };
}
```
Compiled using `rustc --crate-type dylib str.rs`, I was able to link against it from C (`gcc -L. -l str str.c -o str`):
```c
#include <stdio.h>
extern char *reverse(char *);
extern void cleanup(char *);
int main() {
char *s = reverse("Hello, world!");
printf("%s\n", s);
cleanup(s);
}
```
As well as dynamically link via Ruby:
```ruby
require 'fiddle'
require 'fiddle/import'
module LibSum
extend Fiddle::Importer
dlload './libstr.dylib'
extern 'char* reverse(char *)'
extern 'void cleanup(char *)'
end
s = LibSum.reverse("hello, world!")
puts s
LibSum.cleanup(s)
```
* Slate these features to be stable in 1.2 instead of 1.1 (not being backported)
* Have the `FromRawFd` implementations follow the contract of the `FromRawFd`
trait by taking ownership of the primitive specified.
* Refactor the implementations slightly to remove the `unreachable!` blocks as
well as separating the stdio representation of `std::process` from
`std::sys::process`.
This commit stabilizes the following APIs, slating them all to be cherry-picked
into the 1.1 release.
* fs::FileType (and transitively the derived trait implementations)
* fs::Metadata::file_type
* fs::FileType::is_dir
* fs::FileType::is_file
* fs::FileType::is_symlink
* fs::DirEntry::metadata
* fs::DirEntry::file_type
* fs::DirEntry::file_name
* fs::set_permissions
* fs::symlink_metadata
* os::raw::{self, *}
* os::{android, bitrig, linux, ...}::raw::{self, *}
* os::{android, bitrig, linux, ...}::fs::MetadataExt
* os::{android, bitrig, linux, ...}::fs::MetadataExt::as_raw_stat
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt::mode
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt::set_mode
* os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt::from_mode
* os::unix::fs::OpenOptionsExt
* os::unix::fs::OpenOptionsExt::mode
* os::unix::fs::DirEntryExt
* os::unix::fs::DirEntryExt::ino
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::file_attributes
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::creation_time
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::last_access_time
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::last_write_time
* os::windows::fs::MetadataExt::file_size
The `os::unix::fs::Metadata` structure was also removed entirely, moving all of
its associated methods into the `os::unix::fs::MetadataExt` trait instead. The
methods are all marked as `#[stable]` still.
As some minor cleanup, some deprecated and unstable fs apis were also removed:
* File::path
* Metadata::accessed
* Metadata::modified
Features that were explicitly left unstable include:
* fs::WalkDir - the semantics of this were not considered in the recent fs
expansion RFC.
* fs::DirBuilder - it's still not 100% clear if the naming is right here and if
the set of functionality exposed is appropriate.
* fs::canonicalize - the implementation on Windows here is specifically in
question as it always returns a verbatim path. Additionally the Unix
implementation is susceptible to buffer overflows on long paths unfortunately.
* fs::PathExt - as this is just a convenience trait, it is not stabilized at
this time.
* fs::set_file_times - this funciton is still waiting on a time abstraction.
With the latter is provided by the `From` conversion trait, the former is now completely redundant. Their code is identical. Let’s deprecate now and plan to remove in the next cycle. (It’s `#[unstable]`.)
r? @alexcrichton
CC @nagisa
The API documentation is not explicit enough that because `try!` returns
`Err` early for you, you can only use it in functions that return
`Result`. The book mentions this, but if you come across `try!` outside
of the book and look it up in the docs, this restriction on the return
type of the function is not particularly clear.
I seriously had this epiphany a few days ago after working with Rust for MONTHS, and after seeing [a friend have to come to the same realization](http://joelmccracken.github.io/entries/a-simple-web-app-in-rust-pt-2a/), I'd like to save more people from this confusion :) 💖
The API documentation is not explicit enough that because `try!` returns
`Err` early for you, you can only use it in functions that return
`Result`. The book mentions this, but if you come across `try!` outside
of the book and look it up in the docs, this restriction on the return
type of the function is not particularly clear.
These are implemented in asm, they're just not inlined.
Open questions are:
* Should I just inline them? They're.. big, but it seems as though this needs violates the #[inline(always)] gaurantees the others make.
* Does something (llvm?) provide these as intrinsics? The structure of this code suggests that we could be hoisting off something else, instead of flagrantly ignoring it like we do for power and mips.
This takes the cases from `InvalidInput` where a data format error
was encountered. This is different from the documented semantics
of `InvalidInput`, which more likely indicate a programming error.
Fixesrust-lang/rfcs#906
Currently the compiler has no knowledge of `#[thread_local]` which forces users
to take on two burdens of unsafety:
* The lifetime of the borrow of a `#[thread_local]` static is **not** `'static`
* Types in `static`s are required to be `Sync`
The thread-local modules mostly curb these facets of unsafety by only allowing
very limited scopes of borrows as well as allowing all types to be stored in a
thread-local key (regardless of whether they are `Sync`) through an `unsafe
impl`.
Unfortunately these measures have the consequence of being able to take the
address of the key itself and send it to another thread, allowing the same key
to be accessed from two different threads. This is clearly unsafe, and this
commit fixes this problem with the same trick used by `LocalKey`, which is to
have an indirect function call to find the address of the *current thread's*
thread local. This way the address of thread local keys can safely be sent among
threads as their lifetime truly is `'static`.
This commit will reduce the performance of cross-crate scoped thread locals as
it now requires an indirect function call, but this can likely be overcome in a
future commit.
Closes#25894
This commit adds a ./configure option called `--disable-elf-tls` which disables
ELF based TLS (that which is communicated to LLVM) on platforms which already
support it. OSX 10.6 does not support this form of TLS, and some users of Rust
need to target 10.6 and are unable to do so due to the usage of TLS. The
standard library will continue to use ELF based TLS on OSX by default (as the
officially supported platform is 10.7+), but this adds an option to compile the
standard library in a way that is compatible with 10.6.
Closes#25342
The `HashMap` and `HashSet` iterators use `RawTable::first_bucket_raw` which is generic and will get inlined cross-crate.
However, `first_bucket_raw` calls `calculate_offsets` and the call doesn't get inlined, despite being a simple function.
This missing `#[inline]` results in `hash_table::calculate_offsets` showing up at the top of a callgrind profile with 3 million calls (for the testcase in #25916).
This commit implements a number of standard traits for the standard library's
process I/O handles. The `FromRaw{Fd,Handle}` traits are now implemented for the
`Stdio` type and the `AsRaw{Fd,Handle}` traits are now implemented for the
`Child{Stdout,Stdin,Stderr}` types.
The stability markers for these implementations mention that they are stable for
1.1 as I will nominate this commit for cherry-picking to beta.
This takes the cases from InvalidInput where a data format error
was encountered. This is different from the documented semantics
of InvalidInput, which more likely indicate a programming error.
The first commit simply forwards `io::Error`'s `cause` implementation to the inner error.
The second commit adds accessor methods for the inner error. Method names mirror those used elsewhere like `BufReader`.
r? @alexcrichton
This commit adds a ./configure option called `--disable-elf-tls` which disables
ELF based TLS (that which is communicated to LLVM) on platforms which already
support it. OSX 10.6 does not support this form of TLS, and some users of Rust
need to target 10.6 and are unable to do so due to the usage of TLS. The
standard library will continue to use ELF based TLS on OSX by default (as the
officially supported platform is 10.7+), but this adds an option to compile the
standard library in a way that is compatible with 10.6.
The change to split up soft_link to OS-specific symlink, symlink_file,
and symlink_dir didn't actually land in 1.0.0. Update the stability and
deprecation attributes to correctly indicate that these changes happend
in 1.1.0.
This was motivated by http://www.evanmiller.org/a-taste-of-rust.html.
A common problem when working with FFI right now is converting from raw
C strings into `&str` or `String`. Right now you're required to say
something like
let cstr = unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(ptr) };
let result = str::from_utf8(cstr.to_bytes());
This is slightly awkward, and is not particularly intuitive for people
who haven't used the ffi module before. We can do a bit better by
providing some convenience methods on CStr:
fn to_str(&self) -> Result<&str, str::Utf8Error>
fn to_string_lossy(&self) -> Cow<str>
This will make it immediately apparent to new users of CStr how to get a
string from a raw C string, so they can say:
let s = unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(ptr).to_string_lossy() };
The `debug_builders` feature is up for 1.1 stabilization in #24028. This commit stabilizes the API as-is with no changes.
Some nits that @alexcrichton mentioned that may be worth discussing now if anyone cares:
* Should `debug_tuple_struct` and `DebugTupleStruct` be used instead of `debug_tuple` and `DebugTuple`? It's more typing but is a technically more correct name.
* `DebugStruct` and `DebugTuple` have `field` methods while `DebugSet`, `DebugMap` and `DebugList` have `entry` methods. Should we switch those to something else for consistency?
cc @alexcrichton @aturon
A common problem when working with FFI right now is converting from raw
C strings into `&str` or `String`. Right now you're required to say
something like
let cstr = unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(ptr) };
let result = str::from_utf8(cstr.to_bytes());
This is slightly awkward, and is not particularly intuitive for people
who haven't used the ffi module before. We can do a bit better by
providing some convenience methods on CStr:
fn to_str(&self) -> Result<&str, str::Utf8Error>
fn to_string_lossy(&self) -> Cow<str>
This will make it immediately apparent to new users of CStr how to get a
string from a raw C string, so they can say:
let s = unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(ptr).to_string_lossy() };
The change to split up soft_link to OS-specific symlink, symlink_file,
and symlink_dir didn't actually land in 1.0.0. Update the stability and
deprecation attributes to correctly indicate that these changes happend
in 1.1.0.
Special thanks to @retep998 for the [excellent writeup](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1061) of tasks to be done and @ricky26 for initially blazing the trail here!
# MSVC Support
This goal of this series of commits is to add MSVC support to the Rust compiler
and build system, allowing it more easily interoperate with Visual Studio
installations and native libraries compiled outside of MinGW.
The tl;dr; of this change is that there is a new target of the compiler,
`x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, which will not interact with the MinGW toolchain at
all and will instead use `link.exe` to assemble output artifacts.
## Why try to use MSVC?
With today's Rust distribution, when you install a compiler on Windows you also
install `gcc.exe` and a number of supporting libraries by default (this can be
opted out of). This allows installations to remain independent of MinGW
installations, but it still generally requires native code to be linked with
MinGW instead of MSVC. Some more background can also be found in #1768 about the
incompatibilities between MinGW and MSVC.
Overall the current installation strategy is quite nice so long as you don't
interact with native code, but once you do the usage of a MinGW-based `gcc.exe`
starts to get quite painful.
Relying on a nonstandard Windows toolchain has also been a long-standing "code
smell" of Rust and has been slated for remedy for quite some time now. Using a
standard toolchain is a great motivational factor for improving the
interoperability of Rust code with the native system.
## What does it mean to use MSVC?
"Using MSVC" can be a bit of a nebulous concept, but this PR defines it as:
* The build system for Rust will build as much code as possible with the MSVC
compiler, `cl.exe`.
* The build system will use native MSVC tools for managing archives.
* The compiler will link all output with `link.exe` instead of `gcc.exe`.
None of these are currently implemented today, but all are required for the
compiler to fluently interoperate with MSVC.
## How does this all work?
At the highest level, this PR adds a new target triple to the Rust compiler:
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
All logic for using MSVC or not is scoped within this triple and code can
conditionally build for MSVC or MinGW via:
#[cfg(target_env = "msvc")]
It is expected that auto builders will be set up for MSVC-based compiles in
addition to the existing MinGW-based compiles, and we will likely soon start
shipping MSVC nightlies where `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` is the host target triple
of the compiler.
# Summary of changes
Here I'll explain at a high level what many of the changes made were targeted
at, but many more details can be found in the commits themselves. Many thanks to
@retep998 for the excellent writeup in rust-lang/rfcs#1061 and @rick26 for a lot
of the initial proof-of-concept work!
## Build system changes
As is probably expected, a large chunk of this PR is changes to Rust's build
system to build with MSVC. At a high level **it is an explicit non goal** to
enable building outside of a MinGW shell, instead all Makefile infrastructure we
have today is retrofitted with support to use MSVC instead of the standard MSVC
toolchain. Some of the high-level changes are:
* The configure script now detects when MSVC is being targeted and adds a number
of additional requirements about the build environment:
* The `--msvc-root` option must be specified or `cl.exe` must be in PATH to
discover where MSVC is installed. The compiler in use is also required to
target x86_64.
* Once the MSVC root is known, the INCLUDE/LIB environment variables are
scraped so they can be reexported by the build system.
* CMake is required to build LLVM with MSVC (and LLVM is also configured with
CMake instead of the normal configure script).
* jemalloc is currently unconditionally disabled for MSVC targets as jemalloc
isn't a hard requirement and I don't know how to build it with MSVC.
* Invocations of a C and/or C++ compiler are now abstracted behind macros to
appropriately call the underlying compiler with the correct format of
arguments, for example there is now a macro for "assemble an archive from
objects" instead of hard-coded invocations of `$(AR) crus liboutput.a ...`
* The output filenames for standard libraries such as morestack/compiler-rt are
now "more correct" on windows as they are shipped as `foo.lib` instead of
`libfoo.a`.
* Rust targets can now depend on native tools provided by LLVM, and as you'll
see in the commits the entire MSVC target depends on `llvm-ar.exe`.
* Support for custom arbitrary makefile dependencies of Rust targets has been
added. The MSVC target for `rustc_llvm` currently requires a custom `.DEF`
file to be passed to the linker to get further linkages to complete.
## Compiler changes
The modifications made to the compiler have so far largely been minor tweaks
here and there, mostly just adding a layer of abstraction over whether MSVC or a
GNU-like linker is being used. At a high-level these changes are:
* The section name for metadata storage in dynamic libraries is called `.rustc`
for MSVC-based platorms as section names cannot contain more than 8
characters.
* The implementation of `rustc_back::Archive` was refactored, but the
functionality has remained the same.
* Targets can now specify the default `ar` utility to use, and for MSVC this
defaults to `llvm-ar.exe`
* The building of the linker command in `rustc_trans:🔙:link` has been
abstracted behind a trait for the same code path to be used between GNU and
MSVC linkers.
## Standard library changes
Only a few small changes were required to the stadnard library itself, and only
for minor differences between the C runtime of msvcrt.dll and MinGW's libc.a
* Some function names for floating point functions have leading underscores, and
some are not present at all.
* Linkage to the `advapi32` library for crypto-related functions is now
explicit.
* Some small bits of C code here and there were fixed for compatibility with
MSVC's cl.exe compiler.
# Future Work
This commit is not yet a 100% complete port to using MSVC as there are still
some key components missing as well as some unimplemented optimizations. This PR
is already getting large enough that I wanted to draw the line here, but here's
a list of what is not implemented in this PR, on purpose:
## Unwinding
The revision of our LLVM submodule [does not seem to implement][llvm] does not
support lowering SEH exception handling on the Windows MSVC targets, so
unwinding support is not currently implemented for the standard library (it's
lowered to an abort).
[llvm]: https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm/blob/rust-llvm-2015-02-19/lib/CodeGen/Passes.cpp#L454-L461
It looks like, however, that upstream LLVM has quite a bit more support for SEH
unwinding and landing pads than the current revision we have, so adding support
will likely just involve updating LLVM and then adding some shims of our own
here and there.
## dllimport and dllexport
An interesting part of Windows which MSVC forces our hand on (and apparently
MinGW didn't) is the usage of `dllimport` and `dllexport` attributes in LLVM IR
as well as native dependencies (in C these correspond to
`__declspec(dllimport)`).
Whenever a dynamic library is built by MSVC it must have its public interface
specified by functions tagged with `dllexport` or otherwise they're not
available to be linked against. This poses a few problems for the compiler, some
of which are somewhat fundamental, but this commit alters the compiler to attach
the `dllexport` attribute to all LLVM functions that are reachable (e.g. they're
already tagged with external linkage). This is suboptimal for a few reasons:
* If an object file will never be included in a dynamic library, there's no need
to attach the dllexport attribute. Most object files in Rust are not destined
to become part of a dll as binaries are statically linked by default.
* If the compiler is emitting both an rlib and a dylib, the same source object
file is currently used but with MSVC this may be less feasible. The compiler
may be able to get around this, but it may involve some invasive changes to
deal with this.
The flipside of this situation is that whenever you link to a dll and you import
a function from it, the import should be tagged with `dllimport`. At this time,
however, the compiler does not emit `dllimport` for any declarations other than
constants (where it is required), which is again suboptimal for even more
reasons!
* Calling a function imported from another dll without using `dllimport` causes
the linker/compiler to have extra overhead (one `jmp` instruction on x86) when
calling the function.
* The same object file may be used in different circumstances, so a function may
be imported from a dll if the object is linked into a dll, but it may be
just linked against if linked into an rlib.
* The compiler has no knowledge about whether native functions should be tagged
dllimport or not.
For now the compiler takes the perf hit (I do not have any numbers to this
effect) by marking very little as `dllimport` and praying the linker will take
care of everything. Fixing this problem will likely require adding a few
attributes to Rust itself (feature gated at the start) and then strongly
recommending static linkage on Windows! This may also involve shipping a
statically linked compiler on Windows instead of a dynamically linked compiler,
but these sorts of changes are pretty invasive and aren't part of this PR.
## CI integration
Thankfully we don't need to set up a new snapshot bot for the changes made here as our snapshots are freestanding already, we should be able to use the same snapshot to bootstrap both MinGW and MSVC compilers (once a new snapshot is made from these changes).
I plan on setting up a new suite of auto bots which are testing MSVC configurations for now as well, for now they'll just be bootstrapping and not running tests, but once unwinding is implemented they'll start running all tests as well and we'll eventually start gating on them as well.
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I'd love as many eyes on this as we've got as this was one of my first interactions with MSVC and Visual Studio, so there may be glaring holes that I'm missing here and there!
cc @retep998, @ricky26, @vadimcn, @klutzy
r? @brson
This commits adds a method to the `std::process` module to get the process
identifier of the child as a `u32`. On Windows the underlying identifier is
already a `u32`, and on Unix the type is typically defined as `c_int` (`i32` for
almost all our supported platforms), but the actually pid is normally a small
positive number.
Eventually we may add functions to load information about a process based on its
identifier or the ability to terminate a process based on its identifier, but
for now this function should enable this sort of functionality to exist outside
the standard library.
This commit adds a small non-generic non-inlineable shim function to
`rt::unwind::try` which the compiler can take care of for managing the exported
symbol instead of having to edit `src/rt/rust_try.ll`
At this time unwinding support is not implemented for MSVC as
`libgcc_s_seh-1.dll` is not available by default (and this is used on MinGW),
but this should be investigated soon. For now this change is just aimed at
getting the compiler far enough to bootstrap everything instead of successfully
running tests.
This commit refactors the `std::rt::unwind` module a bit to prepare for SEH
support eventually by moving all GCC-specific functionality to its own submodule
and defining the interface needed.
The current version of the example won't compile due to unstable features.
This is an attempt to fix that, at the cost of slightly more verbose code.
Using rust 1.0.0 (a59de37e9).
It might be obvious, but I'm not well versed with rust, so feedback is very welcome.
This commit implements a number of standard traits for the standard library's
process I/O handles. The `FromRaw{Fd,Handle}` traits are now implemented for the
`Stdio` type and the `AsRaw{Fd,Handle}` traits are now implemented for the
`Child{Stdout,Stdin,Stderr}` types. Additionally this implements the
`AsRawHandle` trait for `Child` on Windows.
The stability markers for these implementations mention that they are stable for
1.1 as I will nominate this commit for cherry-picking to beta.
This commits adds a method to the `std::process` module to get the process
identifier of the child as a `u32`. On Windows the underlying identifier is
already a `u32`, and on Unix the type is typically defined as `c_int` (`i32` for
almost all our supported platforms), but the actually pid is normally a small
positive number.
Eventually we may add functions to load information about a process based on its
identifier or the ability to terminate a process based on its identifier, but
for now this function should enable this sort of functionality to exist outside
the standard library.
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 1040][rfc] which is a redesign of the
currently-unstable `Duration` type. The API of the type has been scaled back to
be more conservative and it also no longer supports negative durations.
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1040-duration-reform.md
The inner `duration` module of the `time` module has now been hidden (as
`Duration` is reexported) and the feature name for this type has changed from
`std_misc` to `duration`. All APIs accepting durations have also been audited to
take a more flavorful feature name instead of `std_misc`.
Closes#24874
