os-rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa
bors 75da570d78 Auto merge of #83640 - bjorn3:shared_metadata_reader, r=nagisa
Use the object crate for metadata reading

This allows sharing the metadata reader between cg_llvm, cg_clif and other codegen backends.

This is not currently useful for rlib reading with cg_spirv ([rust-gpu](https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu/)) as it uses tar rather than ar as .rlib format, but it is useful for dylib reading required for loading proc macros. (cc `@eddyb)`

The object crate is already trusted as dependency of libstd through backtrace. As far as I know it supports reading all object file formats used by targets for which we support rust dylibs with crate metadata, but I am not certain. If this happens to not be the case, I could keep using LLVM for reading dylib metadata.

Marked as WIP for a perf run and as it is based on #83637.
2021-05-14 12:58:58 +00:00
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src Auto merge of #83640 - bjorn3:shared_metadata_reader, r=nagisa 2021-05-14 12:58:58 +00:00
Cargo.toml Auto merge of #83640 - bjorn3:shared_metadata_reader, r=nagisa 2021-05-14 12:58:58 +00:00
README.md mv compiler to compiler/ 2020-08-30 18:45:07 +03:00

Please read the rustc-dev-guide chapter on Backend Agnostic Codegen.