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Auto merge of #45170 - rust-lang:aphs-no-unsynchronised-llvm-err-global, r=alexcrichton
Band-aid fix to stop race conditions in llvm errors
This is a big hammer, but should be effective at completely removing a
few issues, including inconsistent error messages and segfaults when
LLVM workers race to report results
`LLVM_THREAD_LOCAL` has been present in LLVM since 8 months before 3.7
(the earliest supported LLVM version that Rust can use)
Maybe fixes#43402 (third time lucky?)
r? @alexcrichton
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You can see that in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f578dfad0dd5d43b28eff71a7e857d10c3f55fe/src/librustc_trans/back/write.rs#L75-L100 there's a small window where the static global error message (made thread local in this PR) could be altered by another thread.
Note that we can't use `thread_local` because gcc 4.7 (permitted according to the readme) does not support it.
Maybe ideally all the functions should be modified to not use a global, but this PR makes things deterministic at least. My only hesitation is whether errors are checked in different threads to where they occur, but I figure that's probably unlikely (and is less bad than racing code).
As an aside, segfault evidence before this patch when I was doing some debugging:
```
$ while grep 'No such file or directory' log2; do RUST_LOG=debug ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/bin/rustc -o "" y.rs >log2 2>&1; done
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
error: could not write output to : No such file or directory
```
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