[PATCH] RISC-V: Fix building rust when using GCC toolchain

[Conor Dooley]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 06:11:17PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 5:56 PM Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Mixed builds are allowed on the c side, since we can figure out what the
> 
> I am not sure what you mean by allowed on the C side. For out-of-tree
> modules you mean?

No. Things like clang + ld & gas.
I don't care about out of tree modules ;)

> > versions of each tool are. If there's a way to detect the version of
> > libclang in use by the rust side, then I would be okay with mixed gcc +
> > rustc builds.
> 
> If you mean the libclang used by bindgen, yes, we have such a check
> (warning) in scripts/rust_is_available.sh. We can also have it as a
> Kconfig symbol if needed.

Okay. Short term then is deny gcc + rust, longer term is allow it with
the same caveats as the aforementioned mixed stuff.

> Regarding rustc's LLVM version, I wanted to have a similar check in
> scripts/rust_is_available.sh (also a warning), but it would have been
> quite noisy, and if LTO is not enabled it should generally be OK. So
> we are adding instead a Kconfig symbol for that, which will be used
> for a couple things. Gary has a WIP patch for this one.

Cool, I'll check that out.

> > Yes, I would rather this was not applied at all. My plan was to send a
> > patch making HAVE_RUST depend on CC_IS_CLANG, but just ain't got around
> > to it yet, partly cos I was kinda hoping to mention this to you guys at
> > LPC last week, but I never got the chance to talk to any rust people (or
> > go to any rust talks either!).
> 
> To be clear, that `depends on` would need to be only for RISC-V, i.e.
> other architectures are "OK" with those. It is really, really
> experimental, as we have always warned, but some people is using it
> successfully, apparently.

Yes, just for riscv. The logic in our Kconfig menu is currently something
like
select HAVE_RUST if RUSTC_SUPPORTS_RISCV
so that would just become
select HAVE_RUST if RUSTC_SUPPORTS_RISCV && CC_IS_CLANG

> 
> > Sure, I can add a comment there.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > In sorta related news, is there a plan for config "options" that will
> > allow us to detect gcc-rs or the gcc rust backend?
> 
> gccrs is way too early to even think about that. rustc_codegen_gcc,
> yeah, if needed, we can add a symbol for that when we start supporting
> the backend.

Cool, sounds good.
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