From 948f7798d70b6adb6a490b8867e155dadebd3f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bjorn3 <17426603+bjorn3@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 18:03:07 +0000
Subject: Remove support for -Zcombine-cgu

Nobody seems to actually use this, while still adding some extra
complexity to the already rather complex codegen coordinator code.
It is also not supported by any backend other than the LLVM backend.
---
 compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs | 23 -----------------------
 compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/lib.rs        |  7 -------
 2 files changed, 30 deletions(-)

(limited to 'compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src')

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs
index 6f8fba2a30d..85a06f457eb 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs
@@ -796,29 +796,6 @@ pub(crate) fn optimize(
     Ok(())
 }
 
-pub(crate) fn link(
-    cgcx: &CodegenContext<LlvmCodegenBackend>,
-    dcx: DiagCtxtHandle<'_>,
-    mut modules: Vec<ModuleCodegen<ModuleLlvm>>,
-) -> Result<ModuleCodegen<ModuleLlvm>, FatalError> {
-    use super::lto::{Linker, ModuleBuffer};
-    // Sort the modules by name to ensure deterministic behavior.
-    modules.sort_by(|a, b| a.name.cmp(&b.name));
-    let (first, elements) =
-        modules.split_first().expect("Bug! modules must contain at least one module.");
-
-    let mut linker = Linker::new(first.module_llvm.llmod());
-    for module in elements {
-        let _timer = cgcx.prof.generic_activity_with_arg("LLVM_link_module", &*module.name);
-        let buffer = ModuleBuffer::new(module.module_llvm.llmod());
-        linker
-            .add(buffer.data())
-            .map_err(|()| llvm_err(dcx, LlvmError::SerializeModule { name: &module.name }))?;
-    }
-    drop(linker);
-    Ok(modules.remove(0))
-}
-
 pub(crate) fn codegen(
     cgcx: &CodegenContext<LlvmCodegenBackend>,
     module: ModuleCodegen<ModuleLlvm>,
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/lib.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/lib.rs
index 8b1913cfa75..ca84b6de8b1 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/lib.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/lib.rs
@@ -168,13 +168,6 @@ impl WriteBackendMethods for LlvmCodegenBackend {
         let stats = llvm::build_string(|s| unsafe { llvm::LLVMRustPrintStatistics(s) }).unwrap();
         print!("{stats}");
     }
-    fn run_link(
-        cgcx: &CodegenContext<Self>,
-        dcx: DiagCtxtHandle<'_>,
-        modules: Vec<ModuleCodegen<Self::Module>>,
-    ) -> Result<ModuleCodegen<Self::Module>, FatalError> {
-        back::write::link(cgcx, dcx, modules)
-    }
     fn run_and_optimize_fat_lto(
         cgcx: &CodegenContext<Self>,
         exported_symbols_for_lto: &[String],
-- 
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