Ever since we added a Cargo-based build system for the compiler the
standard library has always been a little special, it's never been able
to depend on crates.io crates for runtime dependencies. This has been a
result of various limitations, namely that Cargo doesn't understand that
crates from crates.io depend on libcore, so Cargo tries to build crates
before libcore is finished.
I had an idea this afternoon, however, which lifts the strategy
from #52919 to directly depend on crates.io crates from the standard
library. After all is said and done this removes a whopping three
submodules that we need to manage!
The basic idea here is that for any crate `std` depends on it adds an
*optional* dependency on an empty crate on crates.io, in this case named
`rustc-std-workspace-core`. This crate is overridden via `[patch]` in
this repository to point to a local crate we write, and *that* has a
`path` dependency on libcore.
Note that all `no_std` crates also depend on `compiler_builtins`, but if
we're not using submodules we can publish `compiler_builtins` to
crates.io and all crates can depend on it anyway! The basic strategy
then looks like:
* The standard library (or some transitive dep) decides to depend on a
crate `foo`.
* The standard library adds
```toml
[dependencies]
foo = { version = "0.1", features = ['rustc-dep-of-std'] }
```
* The crate `foo` has an optional dependency on `rustc-std-workspace-core`
* The crate `foo` has an optional dependency on `compiler_builtins`
* The crate `foo` has a feature `rustc-dep-of-std` which activates these
crates and any other necessary infrastructure in the crate.
A sample commit for `dlmalloc` [turns out to be quite simple][commit].
After that all `no_std` crates should largely build "as is" and still be
publishable on crates.io! Notably they should be able to continue to use
stable Rust if necessary, since the `rename-dependency` feature of Cargo
is soon stabilizing.
As a proof of concept, this commit removes the `dlmalloc`,
`libcompiler_builtins`, and `libc` submodules from this repository. Long
thorns in our side these are now gone for good and we can directly
depend on crates.io! It's hoped that in the long term we can bring in
other crates as necessary, but for now this is largely intended to
simply make it easier to manage these crates and remove submodules.
This should be a transparent non-breaking change for all users, but one
possible stickler is that this almost for sure breaks out-of-tree
`std`-building tools like `xargo` and `cargo-xbuild`. I think it should
be relatively easy to get them working, however, as all that's needed is
an entry in the `[patch]` section used to build the standard library.
Hopefully we can work with these tools to solve this problem!
[commit]: 28ee12db81
This commit adds an `ImplicitSelfKind` to the HIR and the MIR that keeps
track of whether a implicit self argument is immutable by-value, mutable
by-value, immutable reference or mutable reference so that the addition
of the `mut` keyword can be suggested for the immutable by-value case.
This commit transitions definitions of custom sections on the wasm target from
the unstable `#[wasm_custom_section]` attribute to the
already-stable-for-other-targets `#[link_section]` attribute. Mostly the same
restrictions apply as before, except that this now applies only to statics.
Closes#51088
Add existential type definitions
Note: this does not allow creating named existential types, it just desugars `impl Trait` to a less (but still very) hacky version of actual `existential type` items.
r? @nikomatsakis
Make the `const_err` lint `deny`-by-default
At best these things are runtime panics (debug mode) or overflows (release mode). More likely they are public constants that are unused in the crate declaring them.
This is not a breaking change, as dependencies won't break and root crates can `#![warn(const_err)]`, though I don't know why anyone would do that.
Cleanup metadata and incremental cache processing of constants
fixes#49033fixes#49081
we really need tests for this. do we have any cross compilation tests? I couldn't find any
Remove experimental -Zremap-path-prefix-from/to, and replace it with
the stabilized --remap-path-prefix=from=to variant.
This is an implementation for issue of #41555.
Fixes the hash test to recognize that MirValidated can change when changing
around labels, and add a new test that makes sure we're lowering loop statements
correctly.
Now that we made `resolve_lifetimes` into a query, elision errors no
longer abort compilation, which affects some tests.
Also, remove `dep_graph_crosscontaminate_tables` -- there is no a path in
the dep-graph, though red-green handles it. The same scenario
is (correctly) tested by issue-42602.rs in any case.
