This is a GCC codegen for rustc, which means it can be loaded by the existing rustc frontend, but benefits from GCC: more architectures are supported and GCC's optimizations are used.
Despite its name, libgccjit can be used for ahead-of-time compilation, as is used here.
The primary goal of this project is to be able to compile Rust code on platforms unsupported by LLVM. A secondary goal is to check if using the gcc backend will provide any run-time speed improvement for the programs compiled using rustc.
This requires a patched libgccjit in order to work. The patches in this repostory need to be applied. (Those patches should work when applied on master, but in case it doesn't work, they are known to work when applied on 079c23cfe079f203d5df83fea8e92a60c7d7e878.) You can also use my fork of gcc which already includes these patches.
Put the path to your custom build of libgccjit in the file gcc_path.
$ git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc.git $ cd rustc_codegen_gcc $ ./prepare_build.sh # download and patch sysroot src $ ./build.sh --release
To run the tests:
$ ./prepare.sh # download and patch sysroot src and install hyperfine for benchmarking $ ./test.sh --release
$cg_gccjit_dir is the directory you cloned this repo into in the following instructions.
$ CHANNEL="release" $cg_gccjit_dir/cargo.sh run
If you compiled cg_gccjit in debug mode (aka you didn't pass --release to ./test.sh) you should use CHANNEL="debug" instead or omit CHANNEL="release" completely.
You should prefer using the Cargo method.
$ rustc +$(cat $cg_gccjit_dir/rust-toolchain) -Cpanic=abort -Zcodegen-backend=$cg_gccjit_dir/target/release/librustc_codegen_gcc.so --sysroot $cg_gccjit_dir/build_sysroot/sysroot my_crate.rs
Sometimes, libgccjit will crash and output an error like this:
during RTL pass: expand libgccjit.so: error: in expmed_mode_index, at expmed.h:249 0x7f0da2e61a35 expmed_mode_index ../../../gcc/gcc/expmed.h:249 0x7f0da2e61aa4 expmed_op_cost_ptr ../../../gcc/gcc/expmed.h:271 0x7f0da2e620dc sdiv_cost_ptr ../../../gcc/gcc/expmed.h:540 0x7f0da2e62129 sdiv_cost ../../../gcc/gcc/expmed.h:558 0x7f0da2e73c12 expand_divmod(int, tree_code, machine_mode, rtx_def*, rtx_def*, rtx_def*, int) ../../../gcc/gcc/expmed.c:4335 0x7f0da2ea1423 expand_expr_real_2(separate_ops*, rtx_def*, machine_mode, expand_modifier) ../../../gcc/gcc/expr.c:9240 0x7f0da2cd1a1e expand_gimple_stmt_1 ../../../gcc/gcc/cfgexpand.c:3796 0x7f0da2cd1c30 expand_gimple_stmt ../../../gcc/gcc/cfgexpand.c:3857 0x7f0da2cd90a9 expand_gimple_basic_block ../../../gcc/gcc/cfgexpand.c:5898 0x7f0da2cdade8 execute ../../../gcc/gcc/cfgexpand.c:6582
To see the code which causes this error, call the following function:
gcc_jit_context_dump_to_file(ctxt, "/tmp/output.c", 1 /* update_locations */)
This will create a C-like file and add the locations into the IR pointing to this C file. Then, rerun the program and it will output the location in the second line:
libgccjit.so: /tmp/something.c:61322:0: error: in expmed_mode_index, at expmed.h:249
Or add a breakpoint to add_error in gdb and print the line number using:
p loc->m_line
rustup toolchain link debug-current build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage2).debug-current in the file rust-toolchain.../gcc/configure --enable-host-shared --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,jit,c++ --disable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --prefix=/opt/m68k-gcc/ --target=m68k-linux --without-headers.$MACHTYPE.CFLAGS="-Wno-error=attributes -g -O2" at the end of the configure command for building glibc (CFLAGS="-Wno-error=attributes -Wno-error=array-parameter -Wno-error=stringop-overflow -Wno-error=array-bounds -g -O2" for glibc 2.31, which is useful for Debian).TARGET_TRIPLE="m68k-unknown-linux-gnu" in config.sh.TARGET_TRIPLE="mips-unknown-linux-gnu" (or another target having the same attributes). Alternatively, create a target specification file (note that the arch specified in this file must be supported by the rust compiler).linker='-Clinker=m68k-linux-gcc'.gcc_path.let i128_type = context.new_type::<i64>(); in context.rs (same for u128_type).