rust/compiler/rustc_llvm
Miguel Ojeda 74b8d324eb Support .comment section like GCC/Clang (!llvm.ident)
Both GCC and Clang write by default a `.comment` section with compiler
information:

```txt
$ gcc -c -xc /dev/null && readelf -p '.comment' null.o

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     1]  GCC: (GNU) 11.2.0

$ clang -c -xc /dev/null && readelf -p '.comment' null.o

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     1]  clang version 14.0.1 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git c62053979489ccb002efe411c3af059addcb5d7d)
```

They also implement the `-Qn` flag to avoid doing so:

```txt
$ gcc -Qn -c -xc /dev/null && readelf -p '.comment' null.o
readelf: Warning: Section '.comment' was not dumped because it does not exist!

$ clang -Qn -c -xc /dev/null && readelf -p '.comment' null.o
readelf: Warning: Section '.comment' was not dumped because it does not exist!
```

So far, `rustc` only does it for WebAssembly targets and only
when debug info is enabled:

```txt
$ echo 'fn main(){}' | rustc --target=wasm32-unknown-unknown --emit=llvm-ir -Cdebuginfo=2 - && grep llvm.ident rust_out.ll
!llvm.ident = !{!27}
```

In the RFC part of this PR it was decided to always add
the information, which gets us closer to other popular compilers.
An opt-out flag like GCC and Clang may be added later on if deemed
necessary.

Implementation-wise, this covers both `ModuleLlvm::new()` and
`ModuleLlvm::new_metadata()` cases by moving the addition to
`context::create_module` and adds a few test cases.

ThinLTO also sees the `llvm.ident` named metadata duplicated (in
temporary outputs), so this deduplicates it like it is done for
`wasm.custom_sections`. The tests also check this duplication does
not take place.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-07-21 22:01:50 +02:00
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llvm-wrapper Support .comment section like GCC/Clang (!llvm.ident) 2023-07-21 22:01:50 +02:00
src Rollup merge of #96971 - zhaixiaojuan:master, r=wesleywiser 2023-04-11 20:28:45 -07:00
build.rs Link to execinfo on NetBSD 2023-07-17 08:30:54 +02:00
Cargo.toml Remove build_helper 2022-03-05 15:31:22 +01:00