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Martin Nordholts fe66eaa67a Fix backtraces with -C panic=abort on linux; emit unwind tables by default 
The linux backtrace unwinder relies on unwind tables to work properly,
and generating and printing a backtrace is done by for example the
default panic hook.

Begin emitting unwind tables by default again with `-C panic=abort` (see
history below) so that backtraces work.

History
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Backtraces with `-C panic=abort` used to work in Rust 1.22 but broke in
Rust 1.23, because in 1.23 we stopped emitting unwind tables with `-C
panic=abort` (see 24cc38e3b0).

In 1.45 (see cda994633e) a workaround in the form
of `-C force-unwind-tables=yes` was added.

`-C panic=abort` was added in [Rust
1.10](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/07/07/Rust-1.10/#what-s-in-1-10-stable)
and the motivation was binary size and compile time. But given how
confusing that behavior has turned out to be, it is better to make
binary size optimization opt-in with `-C force-unwind-tables=no` rather
than default since the current default breaks backtraces.

Besides, if binary size is a primary concern, there are many other
tricks that can be used that has a higher impact.
2025-10-02 19:46:41 +02:00
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src Fix backtraces with -C panic=abort on linux; emit unwind tables by default 2025-10-02 19:46:41 +02:00
Cargo.toml Add --print target-spec-json-schema 2025-09-12 20:53:28 +02:00
README.md Fix outdated crate names in compiler docs 2021-04-08 11:12:14 -05:00

README.md

rustc_target contains some very low-level details that are specific to different compilation targets and so forth.

For more information about how rustc works, see the rustc dev guide.