Module rustc_codegen_ssa::back::metadata

Reading of the rustc metadata for rlibs and dylibs

Structs

• DefaultMetadataLoader
  The default metadata loader. This is used by cg_llvm and cg_clif.

Enums

• MetadataPosition

Statics

• AIX_METADATA_SYMBOL_NAME 🔒

Functions

• add_gnu_property_note 🔒
• create_compressed_metadata_file
• create_compressed_metadata_file_for_xcoff
  Xcoff - On AIX, custom sections are merged into predefined sections, so custom .rustc section is not preserved during linking. For this reason, we store metadata in predefined .info section, and define a symbol to reference the metadata. To preserve metadata during linking on AIX, we have toCreate an empty .text section, a empty .data section.Define an empty symbol named symbol_name inside .data section.Define an symbol named AIX_METADATA_SYMBOL_NAME referencing data inside .info section. From XCOFF’s view, (2) creates a csect entry in the symbol table, the symbol created by (3) is a info symbol for the preceding csect. Thus two symbols are preserved during linking and we can use the second symbol to reference the metadata.
• create_object_file 🔒
• create_wrapper_file
  For rlibs we “pack” rustc metadata into a dummy object file.
• get_metadata_xcoff 🔒
• load_metadata_with 🔒
• macho_object_build_version_for_target 🔒
  Since Xcode 15 Apple’s LD requires object files to contain information about what they were built for (LC_BUILD_VERSION): the platform (macOS/watchOS etc), minimum OS version, and SDK version. This returns a MachOBuildVersion for the target.
• search_for_section 🔒