In #95604 the compiler started generating a temporary symbols.o which is added
to the linker invocation. This object file has an `e_flags` which may be invalid
for 32-bit MIPS targets. Even though symbols.o doesn't contain code, linking
with [lld fails](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/lld/ELF/Arch/MipsArchTree.cpp#L79) with
```
rust-lld: error: foo-cgu.0.rcgu.o: ABI 'o32' is incompatible with target ABI 'n64'
```
because it omits the ABI bits (EF_MIPS_ABI_O32) so lld assumes it's using the
N64 ABI. This breaks linking on nightly for the out-of-tree [psx
target](https://github.com/ayrtonm/psx-sdk-rs/issues/9), the builtin
mipsel-sony-psp target (cc @overdrivenpotato) and any other 32-bit MIPS
target using lld.
This PR sets the ABI in `e_flags` to O32 since that's the only ABI for 32-bit
MIPS that LLVM supports. It also sets other `e_flags` bits based on the target.
I had to bump the object crate version since some of these constants were [added
recently](https://github.com/gimli-rs/object/pull/433). I'm not sure if this
PR needs a test, but I can confirm that it fixes the linking issue on both
targets I mentioned.
Because MIPSr6 has many differences with previous MIPSr2 arch, the previous rlib metadata stripping code in `rustc_codegen_ssa` is only for MIPSr2/r3/r5 (which share the same elf e_flags).
This commit fixed this problem. It makes `rustc_codegen_ssa` happy when compiling rustc for MIPSr6 target or hosts.
Actually set IMAGE_SCN_LNK_REMOVE for .rmeta
The code intended to set the IMAGE_SCN_LNK_REMOVE flag for the
.rmeta section, however the value of this flag was set to zero.
Instead use the actual value provided by the object crate.
This dates back to the original introduction of this code in
PR #84449, so we were never setting this flag. As I'm not on
Windows, I'm not sure whether that means we were embedding .rmeta
into executables, or whether the section ended up getting stripped
for some other reason.
The code intended to set the IMAGE_SCN_LNK_REMOVE flag for the
.rmeta section, however the value of this flag was set to zero.
Instead use the actual value provided by the object crate.
This dates back to the original introduction of this code in
PR #84449, so we were never setting this flag. As I'm not on
Windows, I'm not sure whether that means we were embedding .rmeta
into executables, or whether the section ended up getting stripped
for some other reason.
For a data section, the object crate will set the SHF_ALLOC by
default, which is exactly what we don't want. Explicitly set
sh_flags to zero to avoid this.
We already use the object crate for generating uncompressed .rmeta
metadata object files. This switches the generation of compressed
.rustc object files to use the object crate as well. These have
slightly different requirements in that .rmeta should be completely
excluded from any final compilation artifacts, while .rustc should
be part of shared objects, but not loaded into memory.
The primary motivation for this change is #90326: In LLVM 14, the
current way of setting section flags (and in particular, preventing
the setting of SHF_ALLOC) will no longer work. There are other ways
we could work around this, but switching to the object crate seems
like the most elegant, as we already use it for .rmeta, and as it
makes this independent of the codegen backend. In particular, we
don't need separate handling in codegen_llvm and codegen_gcc.
codegen_cranelift should be able to reuse the implementation as
well, though I have omitted that here, as it is not based on
codegen_ssa.
This change mostly extracts the existing code for .rmeta handling
to allow using it for .rustc as well, and adjust the codegen
infrastructure to handle the metadata object file separately: We
no longer create a backend-specific module for it, and directly
produce the compiled module instead.
This does not fix#90326 by itself yet, as .llvmbc will need to be
handled separately.
This commit updates how rustc compiler metadata is stored in rlibs.
Previously metadata was stored as a raw file that has the same format as
`--emit metadata`. After this commit, however, the metadata is encoded
into a small object file which has one section which is the contents of
the metadata.
The motivation for this commit is to fix a common case where #83730
arises. The problem is that when rustc crates a `dylib` crate type it
needs to include entire rlib files into the dylib, so it passes
`--whole-archive` (or the equivalent) to the linker. The problem with
this, though, is that the linker will attempt to read all files in the
archive. If the metadata file were left as-is (today) then the linker
would generate an error saying it can't read the file. The previous
solution was to alter the rlib just before linking, creating a new
archive in a temporary directory which has the metadata file removed.
This problem from before this commit is now removed if the metadata file
is stored in an object file that the linker can read. The only caveat we
have to take care of is to ensure that the linker never actually
includes the contents of the object file into the final output. We apply
similar tricks as the `.llvmbc` bytecode sections to do this.
This involved changing the metadata loading code a bit, namely updating
some of the LLVM C APIs used to use non-deprecated ones and fiddling
with the lifetimes a bit to get everything to work out. Otherwise though
this isn't intended to be a functional change really, only that metadata
is stored differently in archives now.
This should end up fixing #83730 because by default dylibs will no
longer have their rlib dependencies "altered" meaning that
split-debuginfo will continue to have valid paths pointing at the
original rlibs. (note that we still "alter" rlibs if LTO is enabled to
remove Rust object files and we also "alter" for the #[link(cfg)]
feature, but that's rarely used).
Closes#83730
