Rollup merge of #113780 - dtolnay:printkindpath, r=b-naber

Support `--print KIND=PATH` command line syntax

As is already done for `--emit KIND=PATH` and `-L KIND=PATH`.

In the discussion of #110785, it was pointed out that `--print KIND=PATH` is nicer than trying to apply the single global `-o` path to `--print`'s output, because in general there can be multiple print requests within a single rustc invocation, and anyway `-o` would already be used for a different meaning in the case of `link-args` and `native-static-libs`.

I am interested in using `--print cfg=PATH` in Buck2. Currently Buck2 works around the lack of support for `--print KIND=PATH` by [indirecting through a Python wrapper script](https://github.com/facebook/buck2/blob/d43cf3a51a31f00be2c2248e78271b0fef0452b4/prelude/rust/tools/get_rustc_cfg.py) to redirect rustc's stdout into the location dictated by the build system.

From skimming Cargo's usages of `--print`, it definitely seems like it would benefit from `--print KIND=PATH` too. Currently it is working around the lack of this by inserting `--crate-name=___ --print=crate-name` so that it can look for a line containing `___` as a delimiter between the 2 other `--print` informations it actually cares about. This is commented as a "HACK" and "abuse". https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/31eda6f7c360d9911f853b3014e057db61238f3e/src/cargo/core/compiler/build_context/target_info.rs#L242 (FYI `@weihanglo` as you dealt with this recently in https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/11633.)

Mentioning reviewers active in #110785: `@fee1-dead` `@jyn514` `@bjorn3`

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/backend.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/backend.rs
index b3c9ecf8b93..1991b55f191 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/backend.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/backend.rs
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ use rustc_span::symbol::Symbol;
 use rustc_target::abi::call::FnAbi;
 use rustc_target::spec::Target;
 
+use std::fmt;
+
 pub trait BackendTypes {
     type Value: CodegenObject;
     type Function: CodegenObject;
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ pub trait CodegenBackend {
     fn locale_resource(&self) -> &'static str;
 
     fn init(&self, _sess: &Session) {}
-    fn print(&self, _req: PrintRequest, _sess: &Session) {}
+    fn print(&self, _req: &PrintRequest, _out: &mut dyn PrintBackendInfo, _sess: &Session) {}
     fn target_features(&self, _sess: &Session, _allow_unstable: bool) -> Vec<Symbol> {
         vec![]
     }
@@ -162,3 +164,19 @@ pub trait ExtraBackendMethods:
         std::thread::Builder::new().name(name).spawn(f)
     }
 }
+
+pub trait PrintBackendInfo {
+    fn infallible_write_fmt(&mut self, args: fmt::Arguments<'_>);
+}
+
+impl PrintBackendInfo for String {
+    fn infallible_write_fmt(&mut self, args: fmt::Arguments<'_>) {
+        fmt::Write::write_fmt(self, args).unwrap();
+    }
+}
+
+impl dyn PrintBackendInfo + '_ {
+    pub fn write_fmt(&mut self, args: fmt::Arguments<'_>) {
+        self.infallible_write_fmt(args);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/mod.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/mod.rs
index 8cb58bd4c70..728c2bc8c49 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/traits/mod.rs
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ mod write;
 
 pub use self::abi::AbiBuilderMethods;
 pub use self::asm::{AsmBuilderMethods, AsmMethods, GlobalAsmOperandRef, InlineAsmOperandRef};
-pub use self::backend::{Backend, BackendTypes, CodegenBackend, ExtraBackendMethods};
+pub use self::backend::{
+    Backend, BackendTypes, CodegenBackend, ExtraBackendMethods, PrintBackendInfo,
+};
 pub use self::builder::{BuilderMethods, OverflowOp};
 pub use self::consts::ConstMethods;
 pub use self::coverageinfo::CoverageInfoBuilderMethods;