So far it is assumed that using a DLL as a -l parameter argument is ok,
but the assumption doesn't hold when compiling the native code with
llvm.
In which case, an import library is required, so let's build one
This also requires the cargo counterpart to add the import library in
the stamp files, at least when compiling libstd. Otherwise, the files
don't get uplifted
The (almost) culmination of HirIdification
It's finally over.
This PR removes old `FIXME`s and renames some functions so that the `HirId` variant has the shorter name.
All that remains (and rightfully so) is stuff in `resolve`, `save_analysis` and (as far as I can tell) in a few places where we can't replace `NodeId` with `HirId`.
This is useful for getting the total compilation time at the end.
To do this, the patch changes `print_time_passes_entry` to not increment
the depth, which means that `print_time_passes_entry_internal` is no
longer needed.
Stabilize support for Profile-guided Optimization
This PR makes profile-guided optimization available via the `-C profile-generate` / `-C profile-use` pair of commandline flags and adds end-user documentation for the feature to the [rustc book](https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/). The PR thus ticks the last two remaining checkboxes of the [stabilization tracking issue](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/59913).
From the tracking issue:
> Profile-guided optimization (PGO) is a common optimization technique for ahead-of-time compilers. It works by collecting data about a program's typical execution (e.g. probability of branches taken, typical runtime values of variables, etc) and then uses this information during program optimization for things like inlining decisions, machine code layout, or indirect call promotion.
If you are curious about how this can be used, there is a rendered version of the documentation this PR adds available [here](
https://github.com/michaelwoerister/rust/blob/stabilize-pgo/src/doc/rustc/src/profile-guided-optimization.md).
r? @alexcrichton
cc @rust-lang/compiler
We've seen quite a few issues with spurious illegal instructions getting
executed on OSX on CI recently. For whatever reason `cc` itself is
executing an illegal instruction and we're not really getting any other
information about what's happening. Since we're already retrying the
linker when it segfaults, let's just continue to retry everything and
automatically reinvoke the linker when it fails with an illegal instruction.
Limit dylib symbols
This makes `windows-gnu` match the behavior of `windows-msvc`. It probably doesn't make sense to export these symbols on other platforms either.
Currently when linking an artifact rustc will only conditionally call
the `Linker::export_symbols` function, but this causes issues on some
targets, like WebAssembly, where it means that executable outputs will
not have the same symbols exported that cdylib outputs have. This commit
sinks the conditional call to `export_symbols` inside the various
implementations of the function that still need it, and otherwise the
wasm linker is configured to always pass through symbol visibility
lists.
The commit moves metadata writing from `link_binary` to
`encode_metadata` (and renames the latter as
`encode_and_write_metadata`). This is at the very start of code
generation.
To implement pipelining, Cargo needs to know when metadata generation is
finished. This commit adds code to do that. Unfortunately, metadata file
writing currently occurs very late during compilation, so pipelining
won't produce a speed-up. Moving metadata file writing earlier will be a
follow-up.
The change involves splitting the existing `Emitter::emit` method in
two: `Emitter::emit_diagnostic` and `Emitter::emit_directive`.
The JSON directives look like this:
```
{"directive":"metadata file written: liba.rmeta"}
```
The functionality is behind the `-Z emit-directives` option, and also
requires `--error-format=json`.
Clean up handling of `-Z pgo-gen` commandline option.
This PR adapts the `-Z pgo-gen` flag to how Clang and GCC handle the corresponding `-fprofile-generate` flag. In particular, the flag now optionally takes a directory to place the profiling data in and allows to omit the argument (instead of having to pass an empty string).
