I think this was left out by accident from the "convert everything to
rlibs" commit, there's no need for this to be a dylib just as everything
else doesn't need to be a dylib!
This commit separates metadata encoding (`tcx.encode_metadata`) from the
creation of the metadata module (which is now handled by
`write_compressed_metadata`, formerly `write_metadata`).
The metadata encoding now occurs slightly earlier in the pipeline, at
the very start of code generation within `start_codegen`.
Metadata *writing* still occurs near the end of compilation; that will
be moved forward in subsequent commits.
This commit is an implementation of adding custom sections to wasm artifacts in
rustc. The intention here is to expose the ability of the wasm binary format to
contain custom sections with arbitrary user-defined data. Currently neither our
version of LLVM nor LLD supports this so the implementation is currently custom
to rustc itself.
The implementation here is to attach a `#[wasm_custom_section = "foo"]`
attribute to any `const` which has a type like `[u8; N]`. Other types of
constants aren't supported yet but may be added one day! This should hopefully
be enough to get off the ground with *some* custom section support.
The current semantics are that any constant tagged with `#[wasm_custom_section]`
section will be *appended* to the corresponding section in the final output wasm
artifact (and this affects dependencies linked in as well, not just the final
crate). This means that whatever is interpreting the contents must be able to
interpret binary-concatenated sections (or each constant needs to be in its own
custom section).
To test this change the existing `run-make` test suite was moved to a
`run-make-fulldeps` folder and a new `run-make` test suite was added which
applies to all targets by default. This test suite currently only has one test
which only runs for the wasm target (using a node.js script to use `WebAssembly`
in JS to parse the wasm output).
