Note: for now, this change only affects `-windows-gnu` builds.
So why was this `libgcc` dylib dependency needed in the first place?
The stack unwinder needs to know about locations of unwind tables of all the modules loaded in the current process. The easiest portable way of achieving this is to have each module register itself with the unwinder when loaded into the process. All modules compiled by GCC do this by calling the __register_frame_info() in their startup code (that's `crtbegin.o` and `crtend.o`, which are automatically linked into any gcc output).
Another important piece is that there should be only one copy of the unwinder (and thus unwind tables registry) in the process. This pretty much means that the unwinder must be in a shared library (unless everything is statically linked).
Now, Rust compiler tries very hard to make sure that any given Rust crate appears in the final output just once. So if we link the unwinder statically to one of Rust's crates, everything should be fine.
Unfortunately, GCC startup objects are built under assumption that `libgcc` is the one true place for the unwind info registry, so I couldn't find any better way than to replace them. So out go `crtbegin`/`crtend`, in come `rsbegin`/`rsend`!
A side benefit of this change is that rustc is now more in control of the command line that goes to the linker, so we could stop using `gcc` as the linker driver and just invoke `ld` directly.
This commit stabilizes and deprecates library APIs whose FCP has closed in the
last cycle, specifically:
Stabilized APIs:
* `fs::canonicalize`
* `Path::{metadata, symlink_metadata, canonicalize, read_link, read_dir, exists,
is_file, is_dir}` - all moved to inherent methods from the `PathExt` trait.
* `Formatter::fill`
* `Formatter::width`
* `Formatter::precision`
* `Formatter::sign_plus`
* `Formatter::sign_minus`
* `Formatter::alternate`
* `Formatter::sign_aware_zero_pad`
* `string::ParseError`
* `Utf8Error::valid_up_to`
* `Iterator::{cmp, partial_cmp, eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge}`
* `<[T]>::split_{first,last}{,_mut}`
* `Condvar::wait_timeout` - note that `wait_timeout_ms` is not yet deprecated
but will be once 1.5 is released.
* `str::{R,}MatchIndices`
* `str::{r,}match_indices`
* `char::from_u32_unchecked`
* `VecDeque::insert`
* `VecDeque::shrink_to_fit`
* `VecDeque::as_slices`
* `VecDeque::as_mut_slices`
* `VecDeque::swap_remove_front` - (renamed from `swap_front_remove`)
* `VecDeque::swap_remove_back` - (renamed from `swap_back_remove`)
* `Vec::resize`
* `str::slice_mut_unchecked`
* `FileTypeExt`
* `FileTypeExt::{is_block_device, is_char_device, is_fifo, is_socket}`
* `BinaryHeap::from` - `from_vec` deprecated in favor of this
* `BinaryHeap::into_vec` - plus a `Into` impl
* `BinaryHeap::into_sorted_vec`
Deprecated APIs
* `slice::ref_slice`
* `slice::mut_ref_slice`
* `iter::{range_inclusive, RangeInclusive}`
* `std::dynamic_lib`
Closes#27706Closes#27725
cc #27726 (align not stabilized yet)
Closes#27734Closes#27737Closes#27742Closes#27743Closes#27772Closes#27774Closes#27777Closes#27781
cc #27788 (a few remaining methods though)
Closes#27790Closes#27793Closes#27796Closes#27810
cc #28147 (not all parts stabilized)
Since it isn't possible to disable linkage of just GCC startup objects, we now need logic for finding libc installation directory and copying the required startup files (e.g. crt2.o) to rustlib directory.
Bonus change: use the `-nodefaultlibs` flag on Windows, thus paving the way to direct linker invocation.
This commit updates the compiler to not attempt to use jemalloc for platforms
where jemalloc is never enabled. Currently the compiler attempts to link in
jemalloc based on whether `--disable-jemalloc` was specified at build time for
the compiler itself, but this is only the right decision for the host target,
not for other targets.
This still leaves a hole open where a set of target libraries are downloaded
which were built with `--disable-jemalloc` and the compiler is unaware of that,
but this is a pretty rare case so it can always be fixed later.
For most parts, rumprun currently looks like NetBSD, as they share the same
libc and drivers. However, being a unikernel, rumprun does not support
process management, signals or virtual memory, so related functions
might fail at runtime. Stack guards are disabled exactly for this reason.
Code for rumprun is always cross-compiled, it uses always static
linking and needs a custom linker.
This commit updates the compiler to not attempt to use jemalloc for platforms
where jemalloc is never enabled. Currently the compiler attempts to link in
jemalloc based on whether `--disable-jemalloc` was specified at build time for
the compiler itself, but this is only the right decision for the host target,
not for other targets.
This still leaves a hole open where a set of target libraries are downloaded
which were built with `--disable-jemalloc` and the compiler is unaware of that,
but this is a pretty rare case so it can always be fixed later.
This adds a new target property, `target_vendor` which can be used as a
matcher for conditional compilation. The vendor is part of the autoconf
target triple: <arch><sub>-<vendor>-<os>-<env>
The default value for `target_vendor` is "unknown".
Matching against the `target_vendor` with `#[cfg]` is currently feature
gated as `cfg_target_vendor`.
This patch basically adds a target option for omitting the `-nodefaultlibs` flag when invoking the linker. I am not sure if this is the correct or only way to approach this problem, so any feedback is welcome.
Motivation: I'm currently working on a Rust target specification for the [rumprun](/rumpkernel/rumprun) unikernel. rumprun is based on rump kernels and uses NetBSDs libc and drivers to provide a POSIXy environment. It provides its own linker wrapper that generates binaries which can be "baked" into a unikernel after configuration. Using `-nodefaultlibs` on the rumprun linker will prevent it from selecting the search paths for the rumprun libraries. My current target implementation for rumprun is here: gandro/rust@295744b2ee
Currently, only a target that `is_like_windows` will omit the `-nodefaultlibs` flag, but since rumprun is not like Windows otherwise, I think a separate flag makes more sense. This might be a breaking change for target specifications that have the `is_like_windows` option set to true. Such targets need to set `no_default_libraries` to false in order to restore the old behavior.
If set to false, `-nodefaultlibs` is not passed to the linker. This
was the default behavior on Windows, but it should be configurable
per target.
This is a [breaking-change] for target specifications that have
the `is_like_windows` option set to true. Such targets need to
set `no_default_libraries` to false in order to restore the old
behavior.
This patch transforms functions of the form
```
fn f<Generic: AsRef<Concrete>>(arg: Generic) {
let arg: &Concrete = arg.as_ref();
// Code using arg
}
```
to the next form:
```
#[inline]
fn f<Generic: AsRef<Concrete>>(arg: Generic) {
fn f_inner(arg: &Concrete) {
// Code using arg
}
f_inner(arg.as_ref());
}
```
Therefore, most of the code is concrete and not duplicated during monomorphisation (unless inlined)
and only the tiny bit of conversion code is duplicated. This method was mentioned by @aturon in the
Conversion Traits RFC (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blame/master/text/0529-conversion-traits.md#L249) and similar techniques are not uncommon in C++ template libraries.
This patch goes to the extremes and applies the transformation even to smaller functions<sup>1</sup>
for purity of the experiment. *Some of them can be rolled back* if considered too ridiculous.
<sup>1</sup> However who knows how small are these functions are after inlining and everything.
The functions in question are mostly `fs`/`os` functions and not used especially often with variety
of argument types, so the code size reduction is rather small (but consistent). Here are the sizes
of stage2 artifacts before and after the patch:
https://gist.github.com/petrochenkov/e76a6b280f382da13c5dhttps://gist.github.com/petrochenkov/6cc28727d5256dbdfed0
Note:
All the `inner` functions are concrete and unavailable for cross-crate inlining, some of them may
need `#[inline]` annotations in the future.
r? @aturon
- All the libstd tests are passing in the optimized build against
a Zenfone2 and the x86 Android emulator.
I haven't tested the other libraries though.
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 1183][rfc] which allows swapping out
the default allocator on nightly Rust. No new stable surface area should be
added as a part of this commit.
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1183
Two new attributes have been added to the compiler:
* `#![needs_allocator]` - this is used by liballoc (and likely only liballoc) to
indicate that it requires an allocator crate to be in scope.
* `#![allocator]` - this is a indicator that the crate is an allocator which can
satisfy the `needs_allocator` attribute above.
The ABI of the allocator crate is defined to be a set of symbols that implement
the standard Rust allocation/deallocation functions. The symbols are not
currently checked for exhaustiveness or typechecked. There are also a number of
restrictions on these crates:
* An allocator crate cannot transitively depend on a crate that is flagged as
needing an allocator (e.g. allocator crates can't depend on liballoc).
* There can only be one explicitly linked allocator in a final image.
* If no allocator is explicitly requested one will be injected on behalf of the
compiler. Binaries and Rust dylibs will use jemalloc by default where
available and staticlibs/other dylibs will use the system allocator by
default.
Two allocators are provided by the distribution by default, `alloc_system` and
`alloc_jemalloc` which operate as advertised.
Closes#27389
This commit removes all unstable and deprecated functions in the standard
library. A release was recently cut (1.3) which makes this a good time for some
spring cleaning of the deprecated functions.
This commit leverages the runtime support for DWARF exception info added
in #27210 to enable unwinding by default on 64-bit MSVC. This also additionally
adds a few minor fixes here and there in the test harness and such to get
`make check` entirely passing on 64-bit MSVC:
* The invocation of `maketest.py` now works with spaces/quotes in CC
* debuginfo tests are disabled on MSVC
* A link error for librustc was hacked around (see #27438)
