Auto merge of #140872 - bjorn3:elf_use_used_linker, r=nikic

Make #[used(linker)] the default on ELF too

`#[used]` currently is an alias for `#[used(linker)]` on all platforms except ELF based ones where it is an alias for `#[used(compiler)]`. The latter has surprising behavior and the LLVM LangRef explicitly states that it "should only be used in rare circumstances, and should not be exposed to source languages." [^2]

The reason `#[used]` still was an alias to `#[used(compiler)]` on ELF is because the gold linker has issues with it. Luckily gold has been deprecated with GCC 15 [^1] and seems to be unable to bootstrap rustc anyway [^3]. As such we shouldn't really care about supporting gold.

This would also allow re-enabling start-stop-gc with lld.

cc https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93798
Likely fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/85045

[^1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html
[^2]: https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#the-llvm-compiler-used-global-variable
[^3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/139425

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/consts.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/consts.rs
index 4234352c93a..73def2711dc 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/consts.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/consts.rs
@@ -541,12 +541,12 @@ impl<'ll> CodegenCx<'ll, '_> {
                 // in the handling of `.init_array` (the static constructor list) in versions of
                 // the gold linker (prior to the one released with binutils 2.36).
                 //
-                // That said, we only ever emit these when compiling for ELF targets, unless
-                // `#[used(compiler)]` is explicitly requested. This is to avoid similar breakage
-                // on other targets, in particular MachO targets have *their* static constructor
-                // lists broken if `llvm.compiler.used` is emitted rather than `llvm.used`. However,
-                // that check happens when assigning the `CodegenFnAttrFlags` in
-                // `rustc_hir_analysis`, so we don't need to take care of it here.
+                // That said, we only ever emit these when `#[used(compiler)]` is explicitly
+                // requested. This is to avoid similar breakage on other targets, in particular
+                // MachO targets have *their* static constructor lists broken if `llvm.compiler.used`
+                // is emitted rather than `llvm.used`. However, that check happens when assigning
+                // the `CodegenFnAttrFlags` in the `codegen_fn_attrs` query, so we don't need to
+                // take care of it here.
                 self.add_compiler_used_global(g);
             }
             if attrs.flags.contains(CodegenFnAttrFlags::USED_LINKER) {