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Aaron Hill
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rustllvm relies on the `LLVMRustStringWriteImpl` symbol existing, but this symbol was previously defined in a *downstream* crate (rustc_codegen_llvm, which depends on rustc_llvm. While this somehow worked under the old 'separate bootstrap step for codegen' scheme, it meant that rustc_llvm could not actually be built by itself, since it relied linking to the downstream rustc_codegen_llvm crate. Now that librustc_codegen_llvm is just a normal crate, we actually try to build a standalone rustc_llvm when we run tests. This commit moves `LLVMRustStringWriteImpl` into rustc_llvm (technically the rustllvm directory, which has its contents built by rustc_llvm). This ensures that we can build each crate in the graph by itself, without requiring that any downstream crates be linked in as well.
The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR,
and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code
that runs towards the end of the compilation process.
For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc guide.