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This commit removes the `wasm_syscall` feature from the
wasm32-unknown-unknown build of the standard library. This feature was
originally intended to allow an opt-in way to interact with the
operating system in a posix-like way but it was never stabilized.
Nowadays with the advent of the `wasm32-wasi` target that should
entirely replace the intentions of the `wasm_syscall` feature.
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This commit moves `thread_local!` on WebAssembly targets to using the
`#[thread_local]` attribute in LLVM. This was recently implemented
upstream and is [in the process of being documented][dox]. This change
only takes affect if modules are compiled with `+atomics` which is
currently unstable and a pretty esoteric method of compiling wasm
artifacts.
This "new power" of the wasm toolchain means that the old
`wasm-bindgen-threads` feature of the standard library can be removed
since it should now be possible to create a fully functioning threaded
wasm module without intrusively dealing with libstd symbols or
intrinsics. Yay!
[dox]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tool-conventions/pull/116
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This is duplicated in a few locations throughout the sysroot to work
around issues with not exporting a macro in libstd but still wanting it
available to sysroot crates to define blocks. Nowadays though we can
simply depend on the `cfg-if` crate on crates.io, allowing us to use it
from there!
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This commit removes all in-tree support for generating backtraces in
favor of depending on the `backtrace` crate on crates.io. This resolves
a very longstanding piece of duplication where the standard library has
long contained the ability to generate a backtrace on panics, but the
code was later extracted and duplicated on crates.io with the
`backtrace` crate. Since that fork each implementation has seen various
improvements one way or another, but typically `backtrace`-the-crate has
lagged behind libstd in one way or another.
The goal here is to remove this duplication of a fairly critical piece
of code and ensure that there's only one source of truth for generating
backtraces between the standard library and the crate on crates.io.
Recently I've been working to bring the `backtrace` crate on crates.io
up to speed with the support in the standard library which includes:
* Support for `StackWalkEx` on MSVC to recover inline frames with
debuginfo.
* Using `libbacktrace` by default on MinGW targets.
* Supporting `libbacktrace` on OSX as an option.
* Ensuring all the requisite support in `backtrace`-the-crate compiles
with `#![no_std]`.
* Updating the `libbacktrace` implementation in `backtrace`-the-crate to
initialize the global state with the correct filename where necessary.
After reviewing the code in libstd the `backtrace` crate should be at
exact feature parity with libstd today. The backtraces generated should
have the same symbols and same number of frames in general, and there's
not known divergence from libstd currently.
Note that one major difference between libstd's backtrace support and
the `backtrace` crate is that on OSX the crates.io crate enables the
`coresymbolication` feature by default. This feature, however, uses
private internal APIs that aren't published for OSX. While they provide
more accurate backtraces this isn't appropriate for libstd distributed
as a binary, so libstd's dependency on the `backtrace` crate explicitly
disables this feature and forces OSX to use `libbacktrace` as a
symbolication strategy.
The long-term goal of this refactoring is to eventually move us towards
a world where we can drop `libbacktrace` entirely and simply use Gimli
and the surrounding crates for backtrace support. That's still aways off
but hopefully will much more easily enabled by having the source of
truth for backtraces live in crates.io!
Procedurally if we go forward with this I'd like to transfer the
`backtrace-rs` crate to the rust-lang GitHub organization as well, but I
figured I'd hold off on that until we get closer to merging.
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This functionality has lived for a while in the tokio ecosystem, where
it can improve performance by minimizing copies.
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This commit deletes the `alloc_system` crate from the standard
distribution. This unstable crate is no longer needed in the modern
stable global allocator world, but rather its functionality is folded
directly into the standard library. The standard library was already the
only stable location to access this crate, and as a result this should
not affect any stable code.
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This commit is an initial start at implementing the standard library for
wasm32-unknown-unknown with the experimental `atomics` feature enabled. None of
these changes will be visible to users of the wasm32-unknown-unknown target
because they all require recompiling the standard library. The hope with this is
that we can get this support into the standard library and start iterating on it
in-tree to enable experimentation.
Currently there's a few components in this PR:
* Atomic fences are disabled on wasm as there's no corresponding atomic op and
it's not clear yet what the convention should be, but this will change in the
future!
* Implementations of `Mutex`, `Condvar`, and `RwLock` were all added based on
the atomic intrinsics that wasm has.
* The `ReentrantMutex` and thread-local-storage implementations panic currently
as there's no great way to get a handle on the current thread's "id" yet.
Right now the wasm32 target with atomics is unfortunately pretty unusable,
requiring a lot of manual things here and there to actually get it operational.
This will likely continue to evolve as the story for atomics and wasm unfolds,
but we also need more LLVM support for some operations like custom `global`
directives for this to work best.
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This commit adds a new target to the compiler: wasm32-unknown-unknown. This
target is a reimagining of what it looks like to generate WebAssembly code from
Rust. Instead of using Emscripten which can bring with it a weighty runtime this
instead is a target which uses only the LLVM backend for WebAssembly and a
"custom linker" for now which will hopefully one day be direct calls to lld.
Notable features of this target include:
* There is zero runtime footprint. The target assumes nothing exists other than
the wasm32 instruction set.
* There is zero toolchain footprint beyond adding the target. No custom linker
is needed, rustc contains everything.
* Very small wasm modules can be generated directly from Rust code using this
target.
* Most of the standard library is stubbed out to return an error, but anything
related to allocation works (aka `HashMap`, `Vec`, etc).
* Naturally, any `#[no_std]` crate should be 100% compatible with this new
target.
This target is currently somewhat janky due to how linking works. The "linking"
is currently unconditional whole program LTO (aka LLVM is being used as a
linker). Naturally that means compiling programs is pretty slow! Eventually
though this target should have a linker.
This target is also intended to be quite experimental. I'm hoping that this can
act as a catalyst for further experimentation in Rust with WebAssembly. Breaking
changes are very likely to land to this target, so it's not recommended to rely
on it in any critical capacity yet. We'll let you know when it's "production
ready".
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Currently testing-wise this target is looking pretty good but isn't complete.
I've got almost the entire `run-pass` test suite working with this target (lots
of tests ignored, but many passing as well). The `core` test suite is still
getting LLVM bugs fixed to get that working and will take some time. Relatively
simple programs all seem to work though!
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It's worth nothing that you may not immediately see the "smallest possible wasm
module" for the input you feed to rustc. For various reasons it's very difficult
to get rid of the final "bloat" in vanilla rustc (again, a real linker should
fix all this). For now what you'll have to do is:
cargo install --git https://github.com/alexcrichton/wasm-gc
wasm-gc foo.wasm bar.wasm
And then `bar.wasm` should be the smallest we can get it!
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In any case for now I'd love feedback on this, particularly on the various
integration points if you've got better ideas of how to approach them!
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