`wasm64-unknown-unknown`

Tier: 3

WebAssembly target which uses 64-bit memories, relying on the memory64 WebAssembly proposal.

Target maintainers

Alex Crichton, https://github.com/alexcrichton

This target is cross-compiled. The target supports std in the same manner as the wasm32-unknown-unknown target which is to say that it comes with the standard library but many I/O functions such as std::fs and std::net will simply return error. Additionally I/O operations like println! don't actually do anything and the prints aren't routed anywhere. This is the same as the wasm32-unknown-unknown target. This target comes by default with an allocator, currently dlmalloc which is ported to rust.

The difference of this target with wasm32-unknown-unknown is that it's compiled for 64-bit memories instead of 32-bit memories. This means that usize is 8-bytes large as well as pointers. The tradeoff, though, is that the maximum memory size is now the full 64-bit address space instead of the 4GB as limited by the 32-bit address space for wasm32-unknown-unknown.

This target is not a stable target. The memory64 WebAssembly proposal is stil in-progress and not standardized. This means that there are not many engines which implement the memory64 feature and if they do they're likely behind a flag, for example:

Nodejs - --experimental-wasm-memory64
Wasmtime - --wasm-features memory64

Also note that at this time the wasm64-unknown-unknown target assumes the presence of other merged wasm proposals such as (with their LLVM feature flags):

Bulk memory - +bulk-memory
Mutable imported globals - +mutable-globals
Sign-extending operations - +sign-ext
Non-trapping fp-to-int operations - +nontrapping-fptoint

The wasm64-unknown-unknown target intends to match the default Clang targets for its "C" ABI, which is likely to be the same as Clang's wasm32-unknown-unknown largely.

Note: due to the relatively early-days nature of this target when working with this target you may encounter LLVM bugs. If an assertion hit or a bug is found it's recommended to open an issue either with rust-lang/rust or ideally with LLVM itself.

This target does not support panic=unwind at this time.

Building the target

You can build Rust with support for the target by adding it to the target list in config.toml, and the target also requires lld to be built to work.

[build]
target = ["wasm64-unknown-unknown"]

[rust]
lld = true

Building Rust programs

Rust does not yet ship pre-compiled artifacts for this target. To compile for this target, you will either need to build Rust with the target enabled (see "Building the target" above), or build your own copy of std by using build-std or similar.

Note that the following cfg directives are set for wasm64-unknown-unknown:

cfg(target_arch = "wasm64")
cfg(target_family = "wasm")

Testing

Currently testing is not well supported for wasm64-unknown-unknown and the Rust project doesn't run any tests for this target. Testing support sort of works but without println! it's not the most exciting tests to run.

Cross-compilation toolchains and C code

Compiling Rust code with C code for wasm64-unknown-unknown is theoretically possible, but there are no known toolchains to do this at this time. At the time of this writing there is no known "libc" for wasm that works with wasm64-unknown-unknown, which means that mixing C & Rust with this target effectively cannot be done.

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