In investigating [an issue][1] with `panic_implementation` defined in an
executable that's optimized I once again got to rethinking a bit about the
`rustc_std_internal_symbol` attribute as well as weak lang items. We've sort of
been non-stop tweaking these items ever since their inception, and this
continues to the trend.
The crux of the bug was that in the reachability we have a [different branch][2]
for non-library builds which meant that weak lang items (and std internal
symbols) weren't considered reachable, causing them to get eliminiated by
ThinLTO passes. The fix was to basically tweak that branch to consider these
symbols to ensure that they're propagated all the way to the linker.
Along the way I've attempted to erode the distinction between std internal
symbols and weak lang items by having weak lang items automatically configure
fields of `CodegenFnAttrs`. That way most code no longer even considers weak
lang items and they're simply considered normal functions with attributes about
the ABI.
In the end this fixes the final comment of #51342
[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/51342#issuecomment-414368019
[2]: 35bf1ae257/src/librustc/middle/reachable.rs (L225-L238)
This commit upgrades the main LLVM submodule to LLVM's current master branch.
The LLD submodule is updated in tandem as well as compiler-builtins.
Along the way support was also added for LLVM 7's new features. This primarily
includes the support for custom section concatenation natively in LLD so we now
add wasm custom sections in LLVM IR rather than having custom support in rustc
itself for doing so.
Some other miscellaneous changes are:
* We now pass `--gc-sections` to `wasm-ld`
* The optimization level is now passed to `wasm-ld`
* A `--stack-first` option is passed to LLD to have stack overflow always cause
a trap instead of corrupting static data
* The wasm target for LLVM switched to `wasm32-unknown-unknown`.
* The syntax for aligned pointers has changed in LLVM IR and tests are updated
to reflect this.
* The `thumbv6m-none-eabi` target is disabled due to an [LLVM bug][llbug]
Nowadays we've been mostly only upgrading whenever there's a major release of
LLVM but enough changes have been happening on the wasm target that there's been
growing motivation for quite some time now to upgrade out version of LLD. To
upgrade LLD, however, we need to upgrade LLVM to avoid needing to build yet
another version of LLVM on the builders.
The revision of LLVM in use here is arbitrarily chosen. We will likely need to
continue to update it over time if and when we discover bugs. Once LLVM 7 is
fully released we can switch to that channel as well.
[llbug]: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37382
