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."

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 and seems to be unable to bootstrap rustc anyway.
As such we shouldn't really care about supporting gold.

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 fe2f2027327..866696276e1 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) {