Rollup merge of #125345 - durin42:thin-link-bitcode, r=bjorn3

rustc_codegen_llvm: add support for writing summary bitcode

Typical uses of ThinLTO don't have any use for this as a standalone file, but distributed ThinLTO uses this to make the linker phase more efficient. With clang you'd do something like `clang -flto=thin -fthin-link-bitcode=foo.indexing.o -c foo.c` and then get both foo.o (full of bitcode) and foo.indexing.o (just the summary or index part of the bitcode). That's then usable by a two-stage linking process that's more friendly to distributed build systems like bazel, which is why I'm working on this area.

I talked some to `@teresajohnson` about naming in this area, as things seem to be a little confused between various blog posts and build systems. "bitcode index" and "bitcode summary" tend to be a little too ambiguous, and she tends to use "thin link bitcode" and "minimized bitcode" (which matches the descriptions in LLVM). Since the clang option is thin-link-bitcode, I went with that to try and not add a new spelling in the world.

Per `@dtolnay,` you can work around the lack of this by using `lld --thinlto-index-only` to do the indexing on regular .o files of bitcode, but that is a bit wasteful on actions when we already have all the information in rustc and could just write out the matching minimized bitcode. I didn't test that at all in our infrastructure, because by the time I learned that I already had this patch largely written.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 3f2fadce9e4..b1785e150ad 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -335,6 +335,10 @@ impl ThinBufferMethods for ThinBuffer {
     fn data(&self) -> &[u8] {
         unimplemented!();
     }
+
+    fn thin_link_data(&self) -> &[u8] {
+        unimplemented!();
+    }
 }
 
 pub struct GccContext {
@@ -414,7 +418,7 @@ impl WriteBackendMethods for GccCodegenBackend {
         back::write::codegen(cgcx, dcx, module, config)
     }
 
-    fn prepare_thin(_module: ModuleCodegen<Self::Module>) -> (String, Self::ThinBuffer) {
+    fn prepare_thin(_module: ModuleCodegen<Self::Module>, _emit_summary: bool) -> (String, Self::ThinBuffer) {
         unimplemented!();
     }