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…json, r=Kivooeo Destabilise `target-spec-json` Per rust-lang/compiler-team#944: > Per rust-lang#71009, the ability to load target spec JSONs was stabilised accidentally. Within the team, we've always considered the format to be unstable and have changed it freely. This has been feasible as custom targets can only be used with core, like any other target, and so custom targets de-facto require nightly to be used (i.e. to build core manually or use Cargo's -Zbuild-std). > > Current build-std RFCs (rust-lang/rfcs#3873, rust-lang/rfcs#3874) propose a mechanism for building core on stable (at the request of Rust for Linux), which combined with a stable target-spec-json format, permit the current format to be used much more widely on stable toolchains. This would prevent us from improving the format - making it less tied to LLVM, switching to TOML, enabling keys in the spec to be stabilised individually, etc. > > De-stabilising the format gives us the opportunity to improve the format before it is too challenging to do so. Internal company toolchains and projects like Rust for Linux already use target-spec-json, but must use nightly at some point while doing so, so while it could be inconvenient for those users to destabilise this, it is hoped that an minimal alternative that we could choose to stabilise can be proposed relatively quickly.
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…json, r=Kivooeo Destabilise `target-spec-json` Per rust-lang/compiler-team#944: > Per rust-lang#71009, the ability to load target spec JSONs was stabilised accidentally. Within the team, we've always considered the format to be unstable and have changed it freely. This has been feasible as custom targets can only be used with core, like any other target, and so custom targets de-facto require nightly to be used (i.e. to build core manually or use Cargo's -Zbuild-std). > > Current build-std RFCs (rust-lang/rfcs#3873, rust-lang/rfcs#3874) propose a mechanism for building core on stable (at the request of Rust for Linux), which combined with a stable target-spec-json format, permit the current format to be used much more widely on stable toolchains. This would prevent us from improving the format - making it less tied to LLVM, switching to TOML, enabling keys in the spec to be stabilised individually, etc. > > De-stabilising the format gives us the opportunity to improve the format before it is too challenging to do so. Internal company toolchains and projects like Rust for Linux already use target-spec-json, but must use nightly at some point while doing so, so while it could be inconvenient for those users to destabilise this, it is hoped that an minimal alternative that we could choose to stabilise can be proposed relatively quickly.
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Rollup of 7 pull requests Successful merges: - #149633 (Enable `outline-atomics` by default on AArch64 FreeBSD) - #149788 (Move shared offload globals and define per-kernel globals once) - #149989 (Improve filenames encoding and misc) - #150012 (rustc_target: Add `efiapi` ABI support for LoongArch) - #150116 (layout: Store inverse memory index in `FieldsShape::Arbitrary`) - #150151 (Destabilise `target-spec-json`) - #150159 (Split eii macro expansion code) r? `@ghost` `@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
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Per rust-lang/compiler-team#944: