Remove RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT hack

It looks like this was added 6 years ago because of issues with the
MacOS linker. MacOS got a new linker in the meantime, so that should
probably be resolved now. Hopefully.

Author: Noratrieb

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs

@@ -736,13 +736,10 @@ fn link_natively(
 
     // Invoke the system linker
     info!("{cmd:?}");
-    let retry_on_segfault = env::var("RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT").is_ok();
     let unknown_arg_regex =
         Regex::new(r"(unknown|unrecognized) (command line )?(option|argument)").unwrap();
     let mut prog;
-    let mut i = 0;
     loop {
-        i += 1;
         prog = sess.time("run_linker", || exec_linker(sess, &cmd, out_filename, flavor, tmpdir));
         let Ok(ref output) = prog else {
             break;
@@ -858,54 +855,7 @@ fn link_natively(
             continue;
         }
 
-        // Here's a terribly awful hack that really shouldn't be present in any
-        // compiler. Here an environment variable is supported to automatically
-        // retry the linker invocation if the linker looks like it segfaulted.
-        //
-        // Gee that seems odd, normally segfaults are things we want to know
-        // about!  Unfortunately though in rust-lang/rust#38878 we're
-        // experiencing the linker segfaulting on Travis quite a bit which is
-        // causing quite a bit of pain to land PRs when they spuriously fail
-        // due to a segfault.
-        //
-        // The issue #38878 has some more debugging information on it as well,
-        // but this unfortunately looks like it's just a race condition in
-        // macOS's linker with some thread pool working in the background. It
-        // seems that no one currently knows a fix for this so in the meantime
-        // we're left with this...
-        if !retry_on_segfault || i > 3 {
-            break;
-        }
-        let msg_segv = "clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault: 11";
-        let msg_bus = "clang: error: unable to execute command: Bus error: 10";
-        if out.contains(msg_segv) || out.contains(msg_bus) {
-            warn!(
-                ?cmd, %out,
-                "looks like the linker segfaulted when we tried to call it, \
-                 automatically retrying again",
-            );
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        if is_illegal_instruction(&output.status) {
-            warn!(
-                ?cmd, %out, status = %output.status,
-                "looks like the linker hit an illegal instruction when we \
-                 tried to call it, automatically retrying again.",
-            );
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        #[cfg(unix)]
-        fn is_illegal_instruction(status: &ExitStatus) -> bool {
-            use std::os::unix::prelude::*;
-            status.signal() == Some(libc::SIGILL)
-        }
-
-        #[cfg(not(unix))]
-        fn is_illegal_instruction(_status: &ExitStatus) -> bool {
-            false
-        }
+        break;
     }
 
     match prog {

src/ci/citool/tests/test-jobs.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ envs:
   env-x86_64-apple-tests: &env-x86_64-apple-tests
     SCRIPT: ./x.py check compiletest --set build.compiletest-use-stage0-libtest=true && ./x.py --stage 2 test --skip tests/ui --skip tests/rustdoc -- --exact
     RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=x86_64-apple-darwin --enable-sanitizers --enable-profiler --set rust.jemalloc
-    RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT: 1
     # Ensure that host tooling is tested on our minimum supported macOS version.
     MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.12
     MACOSX_STD_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.12
@@ -109,7 +108,6 @@ auto:
         --enable-sanitizers
         --enable-profiler
         --set rust.jemalloc
-      RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT: 1
       SELECT_XCODE: /Applications/Xcode_15.4.app
       USE_XCODE_CLANG: 1
       # Aarch64 tooling only needs to support macOS 11.0 and up as nothing else

src/ci/github-actions/jobs.yml

@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ envs:
   env-x86_64-apple-tests: &env-x86_64-apple-tests
     SCRIPT: ./x.py check compiletest --set build.compiletest-use-stage0-libtest=true && ./x.py --stage 2 test --skip tests/ui --skip tests/rustdoc -- --exact
     RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=x86_64-apple-darwin --enable-sanitizers --enable-profiler --set rust.jemalloc
-    RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT: 1
     # Ensure that host tooling is tested on our minimum supported macOS version.
     MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.12
     MACOSX_STD_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.12
@@ -402,7 +401,6 @@ auto:
     env:
       SCRIPT: ./x.py dist bootstrap --include-default-paths --host=x86_64-apple-darwin --target=x86_64-apple-darwin
       RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --enable-full-tools --enable-sanitizers --enable-profiler --set rust.jemalloc --set rust.lto=thin --set rust.codegen-units=1
-      RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT: 1
       # Ensure that host tooling is built to support our minimum support macOS version.
       MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.12
       MACOSX_STD_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.12
@@ -420,7 +418,6 @@ auto:
       # Mac Catalyst cannot currently compile the sanitizer:
       # https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/129069
       RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --enable-sanitizers --enable-profiler --set rust.jemalloc --set target.aarch64-apple-ios-macabi.sanitizers=false --set target.x86_64-apple-ios-macabi.sanitizers=false
-      RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT: 1
       # Ensure that host tooling is built to support our minimum support macOS version.
       # FIXME(madsmtm): This might be redundant, as we're not building host tooling here (?)
       MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.12
@@ -453,7 +450,6 @@ auto:
         --set llvm.ninja=false
         --set rust.lto=thin
         --set rust.codegen-units=1
-      RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT: 1
       SELECT_XCODE: /Applications/Xcode_15.4.app
       USE_XCODE_CLANG: 1
       # Aarch64 tooling only needs to support macOS 11.0 and up as nothing else
@@ -474,7 +470,6 @@ auto:
         --enable-sanitizers
         --enable-profiler
         --set rust.jemalloc
-      RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT: 1
       SELECT_XCODE: /Applications/Xcode_15.4.app
       USE_XCODE_CLANG: 1
       # Aarch64 tooling only needs to support macOS 11.0 and up as nothing else