Remove support for -Zcombine-cgu

Nobody seems to actually use this, while still adding some extra
complexity to the already rather complex codegen coordinator code.
It is also not supported by any backend other than the LLVM backend.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs
index 6f8fba2a30d..85a06f457eb 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs
@@ -796,29 +796,6 @@ pub(crate) fn optimize(
     Ok(())
 }
 
-pub(crate) fn link(
-    cgcx: &CodegenContext<LlvmCodegenBackend>,
-    dcx: DiagCtxtHandle<'_>,
-    mut modules: Vec<ModuleCodegen<ModuleLlvm>>,
-) -> Result<ModuleCodegen<ModuleLlvm>, FatalError> {
-    use super::lto::{Linker, ModuleBuffer};
-    // Sort the modules by name to ensure deterministic behavior.
-    modules.sort_by(|a, b| a.name.cmp(&b.name));
-    let (first, elements) =
-        modules.split_first().expect("Bug! modules must contain at least one module.");
-
-    let mut linker = Linker::new(first.module_llvm.llmod());
-    for module in elements {
-        let _timer = cgcx.prof.generic_activity_with_arg("LLVM_link_module", &*module.name);
-        let buffer = ModuleBuffer::new(module.module_llvm.llmod());
-        linker
-            .add(buffer.data())
-            .map_err(|()| llvm_err(dcx, LlvmError::SerializeModule { name: &module.name }))?;
-    }
-    drop(linker);
-    Ok(modules.remove(0))
-}
-
 pub(crate) fn codegen(
     cgcx: &CodegenContext<LlvmCodegenBackend>,
     module: ModuleCodegen<ModuleLlvm>,