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No backtrace symbols on MacOS w/ Apple Silicon when cross-compiling to aarch64 Linux #18280

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0.11.0

Steps to Reproduce and Observed Behavior

I originally filed this issue as cargo-lambda/cargo-lambda#577, then rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild#204, but the issue is probably within the Zig toolchain somewhere.

I'm building an AWS Lambda function by invoking:

$ RUSTFLAGS="-C strip=none" cargo lambda build --arm64

I'm running on ARM64 MacOS:

$ uname -a
Darwin Ramos-M1 23.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Wed Nov 15 21:53:18 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.61.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

As expected, this produces a binary that appears to contain debug symbols:

$ file ../../target/lambda/bootstrap/bootstrap 
../../target/lambda/bootstrap/bootstrap: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1, for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, with debug_info, not stripped

However, all of the backtraces I generate via the backtrace crate look like:

 0: <unknown>    
 1: <unknown>    
...
31: <unknown>    
32: __libc_start_call_main    
33: __libc_start_main_impl

Panics with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 are similarly empty:

thread 'main' panicked at 'not yet implemented', src/lib.rs:173:5
stack backtrace:
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.

Interestingly, everything works fine when I directly build the Lambda via the Homebrew musl-cross toolchain:

$ export CARGO_TARGET_AARCH64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_MUSL_LINKER=aarch64-linux-musl-gcc
$ cargo build --target aarch64-unknown-linux-musl --release

Even in release mode, the Lambda built with musl-cross prints backtrace symbols.

I searched but wasn't able to find any relevant Zig issues related to missing debug symbols when cross-compiling from aarch64 Darwin to aarch64 Linux.

Expected Behavior

Stack trace should print symbol names

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