As far as I can tell it was introduced to allow fat LTO with
-Clinker-plugin-lto. Later a change was made to automatically disable
ThinLTO summary generation when -Clinker-plugin-lto -Clto=fat is used,
so we can safely remove it.
Destabilise `target-spec-json`
Per rust-lang/compiler-team#944:
> Per https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/71009, the ability to load target spec JSONs was stabilised accidentally. Within the team, we've always considered the format to be unstable and have changed it freely. This has been feasible as custom targets can only be used with core, like any other target, and so custom targets de-facto require nightly to be used (i.e. to build core manually or use Cargo's -Zbuild-std).
>
> Current build-std RFCs (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3873, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3874) propose a mechanism for building core on stable (at the request of Rust for Linux), which combined with a stable target-spec-json format, permit the current format to be used much more widely on stable toolchains. This would prevent us from improving the format - making it less tied to LLVM, switching to TOML, enabling keys in the spec to be stabilised individually, etc.
>
> De-stabilising the format gives us the opportunity to improve the format before it is too challenging to do so. Internal company toolchains and projects like Rust for Linux already use target-spec-json, but must use nightly at some point while doing so, so while it could be inconvenient for those users to destabilise this, it is hoped that an minimal alternative that we could choose to stabilise can be proposed relatively quickly.
Remove -Zoom=panic
There are major questions remaining about the reentrancy that this allows. It doesn't have any users on github outside of a single project that uses it in a panic=abort project to show backtraces. It can still be emulated through `#[alloc_error_handler]` or `set_alloc_error_hook` depending on if you use the standard library or not. And finally it makes it harder to do various improvements to the allocator shim.
With this PR the sole remaining symbol in the allocator shim that is not effectively emulating weak symbols is the symbol that prevents skipping the allocator shim on stable even when it would otherwise be empty because libstd + `#[global_allocator]` is used.
Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43596
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/126683
There are major questions remaining about the reentrancy that this
allows. It doesn't have any users on github outside of a single project
that uses it in a panic=abort project to show backtraces. It
can still be emulated through #[alloc_error_handler] or
set_alloc_error_hook depending on if you use the standard library or
not. And finally it makes it harder to do various improvements to the
allocator shim.
This implements a new unstable compiler flag `-Zannotate-moves` that makes
move and copy operations visible in profilers by creating synthetic debug
information. This is achieved with zero runtime cost by manipulating debug
info scopes to make moves/copies appear as calls to `compiler_move<T, SIZE>`
and `compiler_copy<T, SIZE>` marker functions in profiling tools.
This allows developers to identify expensive move/copy operations in their
code using standard profiling tools, without requiring specialized tooling
or runtime instrumentation.
The implementation works at codegen time. When processing MIR operands
(`Operand::Move` and `Operand::Copy`), the codegen creates an `OperandRef`
with an optional `move_annotation` field containing an `Instance` of the
appropriate profiling marker function. When storing the operand,
`store_with_annotation()` wraps the store operation in a synthetic debug
scope that makes it appear inlined from the marker.
Two marker functions (`compiler_move` and `compiler_copy`) are defined
in `library/core/src/profiling.rs`. These are never actually called -
they exist solely as debug info anchors.
Operations are only annotated if the type:
- Meets the size threshold (default: 65 bytes, configurable via
`-Zannotate-moves=SIZE`)
- Has a non-scalar backend representation (scalars use registers,
not memcpy)
This has a very small size impact on object file size. With the default
limit it's well under 0.1%, and even with a very small limit of 8 bytes
it's still ~1.5%. This could be enabled by default.
Add `-Z hint-mostly-unused` to tell rustc that most of a crate will go unused
This hint allows the compiler to optimize its operation based on this assumption, in order to compile faster. This is a hint, and does not guarantee any particular behavior.
This option can substantially speed up compilation if applied to a large dependency where the majority of the dependency does not get used. This flag may slow down compilation in other cases.
Currently, this option makes the compiler defer as much code generation as possible from functions in the crate, until later crates invoke those functions. Functions that never get invoked will never have code generated for them. For instance, if a crate provides thousands of functions, but only a few of them will get called, this flag will result in the compiler only doing code generation for the called functions. (This uses the same mechanisms as cross-crate inlining of functions.) This does not affect `extern` functions, or functions marked as `#[inline(never)]`.
This option has already existed in nightly as `-Zcross-crate-inline-threshold=always` for some time, and has gotten testing in that form. However, this option is still unstable, to give an opportunity for wider testing in this form.
Some performance numbers, based on a crate with many dependencies having just *one* large dependency set to `-Z hint-mostly-unused` (using Cargo's `profile-rustflags` option):
A release build went from 4m07s to 2m04s.
A non-release build went from 2m26s to 1m28s.
It collects data about macro expansions and prints them in a table after
expansion finishes. It's very useful for detecting macro bloat,
especially for proc macros.
Details:
- It measures code snippets by pretty-printing them and then measuring
lines and bytes. This required a bunch of additional pretty-printing
plumbing, in `rustc_ast_pretty` and `rustc_expand`.
- The measurement is done in `MacroExpander::expand_invoc`.
- The measurements are stored in `ExtCtxt::macro_stats`.
This hint allows the compiler to optimize its operation based on this
assumption, in order to compile faster. This is a hint, and does not
guarantee any particular behavior.
This option can substantially speed up compilation if applied to a large
dependency where the majority of the dependency does not get used. This flag
may slow down compilation in other cases.
Currently, this option makes the compiler defer as much code generation as
possible from functions in the crate, until later crates invoke those
functions. Functions that never get invoked will never have code generated for
them. For instance, if a crate provides thousands of functions, but only a few
of them will get called, this flag will result in the compiler only doing code
generation for the called functions. (This uses the same mechanisms as
cross-crate inlining of functions.) This does not affect `extern` functions, or
functions marked as `#[inline(never)]`.
Some performance numbers, based on a crate with many dependencies having
just *one* large dependency set to `-Z hint-mostly-unused` (using
Cargo's `profile-rustflags` option):
A release build went from 4m07s to 2m04s.
A non-release build went from 2m26s to 1m28s.
coverage: Detect unused local file IDs to avoid an LLVM assertion
Each function's coverage metadata contains a *local file table* that maps local file IDs (used by the function's mapping regions) to global file IDs (shared by all functions in the same CGU).
LLVM requires all local file IDs to have at least one mapping region, and has an assertion that will fail if it detects a local file ID with no regions. To make sure that assertion doesn't fire, we need to detect and skip functions whose metadata would trigger it.
(This can't actually happen yet, because currently all of a function's spans must belong to the same file and expansion. But this will be an important edge case when adding expansion region support.)
This case can't actually happen yet (other than via a testing flag), because
currently all of a function's spans must belong to the same file and expansion.
But this will be an important edge case when adding expansion region support.
Previously `-Zprint-mono-items` would override the mono item collection
strategy. When debugging one doesn't want to change the behaviour, so
this was counter productive. Additionally, the produced behaviour was
artificial and might never arise without using the option in the first
place (`-Zprint-mono-items=eager` without `-Clink-dead-code`). Finally,
the option was incorrectly marked as `UNTRACKED`.
Resolve those issues, by turning `-Zprint-mono-items` into a boolean
flag that prints results of mono item collection without changing the
behaviour of mono item collection.
For codegen-units test incorporate `-Zprint-mono-items` flag directly
into compiletest tool.
Test changes are mechanical. `-Zprint-mono-items=lazy` was removed
without additional changes, and `-Zprint-mono-items=eager` was turned
into `-Clink-dead-code`. Linking dead code disables internalization, so
tests have been updated accordingly.
Do not remove trivial `SwitchInt` in analysis MIR
This PR ensures that we don't prematurely remove trivial `SwitchInt` terminators which affects both the borrow-checking and runtime semantics (i.e. UB) of the code. Previously the `SimplifyCfg` optimization was removing `SwitchInt` terminators when they was "trivial", i.e. when all arms branched to the same basic block, even if that `SwitchInt` terminator had the side-effect of reading an operand which (for example) may not be initialized or may point to an invalid place in memory.
This behavior is unlike all other optimizations, which are only applied after "analysis" (i.e. borrow-checking) is finished, and which Miri disables to make sure the compiler doesn't silently remove UB.
Fixing this code "breaks" (i.e. unmasks) code that used to borrow-check but no longer does, like:
```rust
fn foo() {
let x;
let (0 | _) = x;
}
```
This match expression should perform a read because `_` does not shadow the `0` literal pattern, and the compiler should have to read the match scrutinee to compare it to 0. I've checked that this behavior does not actually manifest in practice via a crater run which came back clean: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/139042#issuecomment-2767436367
As a side-note, it may be tempting to suggest that this is actually a good thing or that we should preserve this behavior. If we wanted to make this work (i.e. trivially optimize out reads from matches that are redundant like `0 | _`), then we should be enabling this behavior *after* fixing this. However, I think it's kinda unprincipled, and for example other variations of the code don't even work today, e.g.:
```rust
fn foo() {
let x;
let (0.. | _) = x;
}
```
Kivooeo