rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm
Manish Goregaokar 38bbc39895
Rollup merge of #105452 - rcvalle:rust-cfi-3, r=bjorn3
Add cross-language LLVM CFI support to the Rust compiler

This PR adds cross-language LLVM Control Flow Integrity (CFI) support to the Rust compiler by adding the `-Zsanitizer-cfi-normalize-integers` option to be used with Clang `-fsanitize-cfi-icall-normalize-integers` for normalizing integer types (see https://reviews.llvm.org/D139395).

It provides forward-edge control flow protection for C or C++ and Rust -compiled code "mixed binaries" (i.e., for when C or C++ and Rust -compiled code share the same virtual address space). For more information about LLVM CFI and cross-language LLVM CFI support for the Rust compiler, see design document in the tracking issue #89653.

Cross-language LLVM CFI can be enabled with -Zsanitizer=cfi and -Zsanitizer-cfi-normalize-integers, and requires proper (i.e., non-rustc) LTO (i.e., -Clinker-plugin-lto).

Thank you again, ``@bjorn3,`` ``@nikic,`` ``@samitolvanen,`` and the Rust community for all the help!
2023-05-03 16:42:48 -07:00
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src Rollup merge of #105452 - rcvalle:rust-cfi-3, r=bjorn3 2023-05-03 16:42:48 -07:00
Cargo.toml drop unused deps, gate libc under unix for one crate 2023-04-22 15:22:21 +03:00
messages.ftl Check for escape sequences in Fluent resources 2023-03-29 18:34:29 +01:00
README.md mv compiler to compiler/ 2020-08-30 18:45:07 +03:00

The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR, and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code that runs towards the end of the compilation process.

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