Rollup merge of #117616 - RalfJung:unstable-target-features, r=compiler-errors

warn when using an unstable feature with -Ctarget-feature

Setting or unsetting the wrong target features can cause ABI incompatibility (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116344, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116558). We need to carefully audit features for their ABI impact before stabilization. I just learned that we currently accept arbitrary unstable features on stable and if they are in the list of Rust target features, even unstable, then we don't even warn about that!1 That doesn't seem great, so I propose we introduce a warning here.

This has an obvious loophole via `-Ctarget-cpu`. I'm not sure how to best deal with that, but it seems better to fix what we can and think about the other cases later, maybe once we have a better idea for how to resolve the general mess that are ABI-affecting target features.

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/errors.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/errors.rs
index 665d195790c..10ca5ad802a 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/errors.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/errors.rs
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ pub(crate) struct UnknownCTargetFeature<'a> {
     pub rust_feature: PossibleFeature<'a>,
 }
 
+#[derive(Diagnostic)]
+#[diag(codegen_llvm_unstable_ctarget_feature)]
+#[note]
+pub(crate) struct UnstableCTargetFeature<'a> {
+    pub feature: &'a str,
+}
+
 #[derive(Subdiagnostic)]
 pub(crate) enum PossibleFeature<'a> {
     #[help(codegen_llvm_possible_feature)]
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm_util.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm_util.rs
index 7c8ef67ffd1..cc4ccaf19c2 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm_util.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm_util.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use crate::back::write::create_informational_target_machine;
 use crate::errors::{
     PossibleFeature, TargetFeatureDisableOrEnable, UnknownCTargetFeature,
-    UnknownCTargetFeaturePrefix,
+    UnknownCTargetFeaturePrefix, UnstableCTargetFeature,
 };
 use crate::llvm;
 use libc::c_int;
@@ -531,25 +531,34 @@ pub(crate) fn global_llvm_features(sess: &Session, diagnostics: bool) -> Vec<Str
             };
 
             let feature = backend_feature_name(s)?;
-            // Warn against use of LLVM specific feature names on the CLI.
-            if diagnostics && !supported_features.iter().any(|&(v, _)| v == feature) {
-                let rust_feature = supported_features.iter().find_map(|&(rust_feature, _)| {
-                    let llvm_features = to_llvm_features(sess, rust_feature);
-                    if llvm_features.contains(&feature) && !llvm_features.contains(&rust_feature) {
-                        Some(rust_feature)
+            // Warn against use of LLVM specific feature names and unstable features on the CLI.
+            if diagnostics {
+                let feature_state = supported_features.iter().find(|&&(v, _)| v == feature);
+                if feature_state.is_none() {
+                    let rust_feature = supported_features.iter().find_map(|&(rust_feature, _)| {
+                        let llvm_features = to_llvm_features(sess, rust_feature);
+                        if llvm_features.contains(&feature)
+                            && !llvm_features.contains(&rust_feature)
+                        {
+                            Some(rust_feature)
+                        } else {
+                            None
+                        }
+                    });
+                    let unknown_feature = if let Some(rust_feature) = rust_feature {
+                        UnknownCTargetFeature {
+                            feature,
+                            rust_feature: PossibleFeature::Some { rust_feature },
+                        }
                     } else {
-                        None
-                    }
-                });
-                let unknown_feature = if let Some(rust_feature) = rust_feature {
-                    UnknownCTargetFeature {
-                        feature,
-                        rust_feature: PossibleFeature::Some { rust_feature },
-                    }
-                } else {
-                    UnknownCTargetFeature { feature, rust_feature: PossibleFeature::None }
-                };
-                sess.emit_warning(unknown_feature);
+                        UnknownCTargetFeature { feature, rust_feature: PossibleFeature::None }
+                    };
+                    sess.emit_warning(unknown_feature);
+                } else if feature_state.is_some_and(|(_name, feature_gate)| feature_gate.is_some())
+                {
+                    // An unstable feature. Warn about using it.
+                    sess.emit_warning(UnstableCTargetFeature { feature });
+                }
             }
 
             if diagnostics {