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Make SIGSEGV handler emit nicer backtraces This annotates the code heavily with comments to explain what is going on, for the benefit of other compiler contributors. The backtrace also emits appropriate comments to clarify, to a programmer who may not know why a bunch of file paths and hexadecimal blather was just dumped into stderr, what is going on. Finally, it detects cycles and uses their regularity to avoid repeating a bunch of text. The previous backtraces we were emitting was extremely unfriendly, potentially confusing, and often alarming, and this makes things almost "nice". We can't necessarily make them much nicer than this, because a signal handler must use "signal-safe" functions. This precludes conveniences like dynamic allocations. Fortunately, Rust's stdlib has allocation-free formatting, but it may hinder integrating this error with our localization middleware, as I wasn't able to clearly ascertain, at a glance, whether there was a zero-alloc path through it. r? `@Nilstrieb` |
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The driver crate is effectively the "main" function for the rust
compiler. It orchestrates the compilation process and "knits together"
the code from the other crates within rustc. This crate itself does
not contain any of the "main logic" of the compiler (though it does
have some code related to pretty printing or other minor compiler
options).
For more information about how the driver works, see the rustc dev guide.