We're using `Layout` on both sides, so might as well skip the transmutes back and forth to `usize`.
The mir-opt test shows that doing so allows simplifying the boxed-slice drop slightly, for example.
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.
Currently it is possible to avoid linking the allocator shim when
__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable_v2 is defined when linking rlibs
directly as some build systems need. However this requires liballoc to
be compiled with --cfg no_global_oom_handling, which places huge
restrictions on what functions you can call and makes it impossible to
use libstd. Or alternatively you have to define
__rust_alloc_error_handler and (when using libstd)
__rust_alloc_error_handler_should_panic
using #[rustc_std_internal_symbol]. With this commit you can either use
libstd and define __rust_alloc_error_handler_should_panic or not use
libstd and use #[alloc_error_handler] instead. Both options are still
unstable though.
Eventually the alloc_error_handler may either be removed entirely
(though the PR for that has been stale for years now) or we may start
using weak symbols for it instead. For the latter case this commit is a
prerequisite anyway.
There is a subtlety which "other conditions must be upheld by the caller"
does not capture: `GlobalAlloc`/`alloc::dealloc()` require that the
provided layout will be *equal*, not just that it "fits", the layout
used to allocate. This is always true here due to how `allocate()`,
`grow()`, and `shrink()` are implemented (they never return a larger
allocation than requested), but that is a non-local property of the
implementation, so it should be documented explicitly.
only set noalias on Box with the global allocator
As discovered in https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/3341, `noalias` and custom allocators don't go well together.
rustc can now check whether a Box uses the global allocator. This replaces the previous ad-hoc and rather unprincipled check for a zero-sized allocator.
This is the rustc part of fixing that; Miri will also need a patch.
Add the following facts:
* `handle_alloc_error` may panic instead of aborting.
* What happens if a hook returns rather than diverging.
* A hook may panic. (This was already demonstrated in an example,
but not stated in prose.)
* A hook must be sound to call — it cannot assume that it is only
called by the runtime, since its function pointer can be retrieved by
safe code.
You will need to add the following as replacement for the old __rust_*
definitions when not using the alloc shim.
#[no_mangle]
static __rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable: u8 = 0;
Scott McMurray