rust/compiler/rustc_target
bors 6faf0bd3e5 Auto merge of #127731 - veluca93:abi_checks, r=RalfJung
Emit future-incompatibility lint when calling/declaring functions with vectors that require missing target feature

On some architectures, vector types may have a different ABI depending on whether the relevant target features are enabled. (The ABI when the feature is disabled is often not specified, but LLVM implements some de-facto ABI.)

As discussed in https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/issues/235, this turns out to very easily lead to unsound code.

This commit makes it a post-monomorphization error to declare or call functions using those vector types in a context in which the corresponding target features are disabled, if using an ABI for which the difference is relevant. This ensures that these functions are always called with a consistent ABI.

See the [nomination comment](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/127731#issuecomment-2288558187) for more discussion.

r? RalfJung

Part of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116558
2024-10-25 15:17:47 +00:00
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src Auto merge of #127731 - veluca93:abi_checks, r=RalfJung 2024-10-25 15:17:47 +00:00
Cargo.toml dedup object 2024-07-28 17:21:07 +03:00
README.md Fix outdated crate names in compiler docs 2021-04-08 11:12:14 -05:00

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.