Add one more "late metadata"/"digest" file to rlib archives #138243
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The file should contain data about:
cfg
on native libraries bundled as object fileslooks_like_rust_object_file
during LTOUnlike regular metadata which is constructed early, this additional digest will be constructed and added to the archive in the very end, when all other members of the rlib archive are already added.
It is also going to be read only when rustc is going to link the rlib into something, not earlier.
The data could potentially use some text format like json, but it would probably be simpler to just use the same format as the regular metadata uses.
The implementation can also mirror what is done for regular metadata, in a simplified form.
Me and @belovdv wanted to do this when implementing
+bundle,+whole-archive
(#113301) andpacked_bundled_libs
(#108081), as a more principle solution, but ended up with just some workarounds instead, and never returned to this.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: