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Add option to pass a custom codegen backend from a driver #76474

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This allows the driver to pass information to the codegen backend. For example the headcrab debugger may in the future want to use cg_clif to JIT code to be injected in the debuggee. This would PR make it possible to tell cg_clif which symbol can be found at which address and to tell it to inject the JITed code into the right process.

This PR may also help with rust-lang/miri#1540 by allowing miri to provide a codegen backend that only emits metadata and doesn't perform any codegen.

cc @nbaksalyar (headcrab)
cc @RalfJung (miri)

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bjorn3 commented Sep 21, 2020

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FWIW, I had not realized how hard it is to write a stub codegen backend that does nothing, so using this in Miri will be tricky -- this is just the first step. But it seems like a reasonable first step to me anyway.

Not sure who would be a good reviewer though... I'll bring this up on Zulip.

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📌 Commit 71bc62b has been approved by oli-obk

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RalfJung added a commit to RalfJung/rust that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2020
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Add option to pass a custom codegen backend from a driver

This allows the driver to pass information to the codegen backend. For example the headcrab debugger may in the future want to use cg_clif to JIT code to be injected in the debuggee. This would PR make it possible to tell cg_clif which symbol can be found at which address and to tell it to inject the JITed code into the right process.

This PR may also help with rust-lang/miri#1540 by allowing miri to provide a codegen backend that only emits metadata and doesn't perform any codegen.

cc @nbaksalyar (headcrab)
cc @RalfJung (miri)
Dylan-DPC-zz pushed a commit to Dylan-DPC-zz/rust that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2020
…li-obk

Add option to pass a custom codegen backend from a driver

This allows the driver to pass information to the codegen backend. For example the headcrab debugger may in the future want to use cg_clif to JIT code to be injected in the debuggee. This would PR make it possible to tell cg_clif which symbol can be found at which address and to tell it to inject the JITed code into the right process.

This PR may also help with rust-lang/miri#1540 by allowing miri to provide a codegen backend that only emits metadata and doesn't perform any codegen.

cc @nbaksalyar (headcrab)
cc @RalfJung (miri)
bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2020
Rollup of 7 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - rust-lang#76454 (UI to unit test for those using Cell/RefCell/UnsafeCell)
 - rust-lang#76474 (Add option to pass a custom codegen backend from a driver)
 - rust-lang#76711 (diag: improve closure/generic parameter mismatch)
 - rust-lang#77170 (Remove `#[rustc_allow_const_fn_ptr]` and add `#![feature(const_fn_fn_ptr_basics)]`)
 - rust-lang#77194 (Add doc alias for iterator fold)
 - rust-lang#77288 (fix building libstd for Miri on macOS)
 - rust-lang#77295 (Update unstable-book: Fix ABNF in inline assembly docs)

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@bors bors merged commit 6a8cdbd into rust-lang:master Sep 28, 2020
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flip1995 pushed a commit to flip1995/rust that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2020
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Add option to pass a custom codegen backend from a driver

This allows the driver to pass information to the codegen backend. For example the headcrab debugger may in the future want to use cg_clif to JIT code to be injected in the debuggee. This would PR make it possible to tell cg_clif which symbol can be found at which address and to tell it to inject the JITed code into the right process.

This PR may also help with rust-lang/miri#1540 by allowing miri to provide a codegen backend that only emits metadata and doesn't perform any codegen.

cc @nbaksalyar (headcrab)
cc @RalfJung (miri)
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