Cannot build bare metal mach-o binaries
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Description
I tried to compile a bare metal aarch64 Rust Mach-O binary with the following target json spec:
{
"abi": "softfloat",
"arch": "aarch64",
"crt-objects-fallback": "false",
"data-layout": "e-m:o-i64:64-i128:128-n32:64-S128-Fn32",
"disable-redzone": true,
"features": "+v8a,+strict-align,-neon,-fp-armv8",
"is-builtin": false,
"linker": "ld64.lld",
"linker-flavor": "gnu-lld",
"llvm-target": "aarch64-unknown-none-macho",
"max-atomic-width": 128,
"metadata": {
"description": "Bare ARM64, softfloat",
"host_tools": false,
"std": false,
"tier": 2
},
"panic-strategy": "abort",
"relocation-model": "static",
"stack-probes": {
"kind": "inline"
},
"target-pointer-width": "64"
}
I expected to see this happen: No errors
Instead, this happened:
rustc-LLVM ERROR: Global variable '__rustc_debug_gdb_scripts_section__' has an invalid section specifier '.debug_gdb_scripts': mach-o section specifier requires a segment and section separated by a comma.
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rustc --version --verbose:
rustc 1.83.0-nightly (6f4ae0f34 2024-10-08)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 6f4ae0f34503601e54680a137c1db0b81b56cc3d
commit-date: 2024-10-08
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.83.0-nightly
LLVM version: 19.1.1
Unfortunately RUST_BACKTRACE=1 doesn't change anything so I cannot give backtrace at the moment. I will look into building rustc if needed.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure with the aarch64 bare-metal target JSON from the issue and inspect how rustc emits the rustc_debug_gdb_scripts_section section for Mach-O targets. Done means the target builds without LLVM rejecting the .debug_gdb_scripts section specifier; no project files or tests are named in the report.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100