This commit removes the `wasm_syscall` feature from the
wasm32-unknown-unknown build of the standard library. This feature was
originally intended to allow an opt-in way to interact with the
operating system in a posix-like way but it was never stabilized.
Nowadays with the advent of the `wasm32-wasi` target that should
entirely replace the intentions of the `wasm_syscall` feature.
This commit is an attempt to force `Instant::now` to be monotonic
through any means possible. We tried relying on OS/hardware/clock
implementations, but those seem buggy enough that we can't rely on them
in practice. This commit implements the same hammer Firefox recently
implemented (noted in #56612) which is to just keep whatever the lastest
`Instant::now()` return value was in memory, returning that instead of
the OS looks like it's moving backwards.
Closes#48514Closes#49281
cc #51648
cc #56560Closes#56612Closes#56940
Since SystemTime is opaque there is no way to check if the result
of an addition will be in bounds. That makes the Add<Duration>
trait completely unusable with untrusted data. This is a big problem
because adding a Duration to UNIX_EPOCH is the standard way of
constructing a SystemTime from a unix timestamp.
This commit implements checked_add_duration(&self, &Duration) -> Option<SystemTime>
for std::time::SystemTime and as a prerequisite also for all platform
specific time structs. This also led to the refactoring of many
add_duration(&self, &Duration) -> SystemTime functions to avoid
redundancy (they now unwrap the result of checked_add_duration).
Some basic unit tests for the newly introduced function were added
too.
This commit adds a new target to the compiler: wasm32-unknown-unknown. This
target is a reimagining of what it looks like to generate WebAssembly code from
Rust. Instead of using Emscripten which can bring with it a weighty runtime this
instead is a target which uses only the LLVM backend for WebAssembly and a
"custom linker" for now which will hopefully one day be direct calls to lld.
Notable features of this target include:
* There is zero runtime footprint. The target assumes nothing exists other than
the wasm32 instruction set.
* There is zero toolchain footprint beyond adding the target. No custom linker
is needed, rustc contains everything.
* Very small wasm modules can be generated directly from Rust code using this
target.
* Most of the standard library is stubbed out to return an error, but anything
related to allocation works (aka `HashMap`, `Vec`, etc).
* Naturally, any `#[no_std]` crate should be 100% compatible with this new
target.
This target is currently somewhat janky due to how linking works. The "linking"
is currently unconditional whole program LTO (aka LLVM is being used as a
linker). Naturally that means compiling programs is pretty slow! Eventually
though this target should have a linker.
This target is also intended to be quite experimental. I'm hoping that this can
act as a catalyst for further experimentation in Rust with WebAssembly. Breaking
changes are very likely to land to this target, so it's not recommended to rely
on it in any critical capacity yet. We'll let you know when it's "production
ready".
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Currently testing-wise this target is looking pretty good but isn't complete.
I've got almost the entire `run-pass` test suite working with this target (lots
of tests ignored, but many passing as well). The `core` test suite is still
getting LLVM bugs fixed to get that working and will take some time. Relatively
simple programs all seem to work though!
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It's worth nothing that you may not immediately see the "smallest possible wasm
module" for the input you feed to rustc. For various reasons it's very difficult
to get rid of the final "bloat" in vanilla rustc (again, a real linker should
fix all this). For now what you'll have to do is:
cargo install --git https://github.com/alexcrichton/wasm-gc
wasm-gc foo.wasm bar.wasm
And then `bar.wasm` should be the smallest we can get it!
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In any case for now I'd love feedback on this, particularly on the various
integration points if you've got better ideas of how to approach them!
