Add wasm32v1-none target (compiler-team/#791)

Author: graydon

compiler/rustc_target/src/spec/mod.rs

@@ -1803,6 +1803,7 @@ supported_targets! {
 
     ("wasm32-unknown-emscripten", wasm32_unknown_emscripten),
     ("wasm32-unknown-unknown", wasm32_unknown_unknown),
+    ("wasm32v1-none", wasm32v1_none),
     ("wasm32-wasi", wasm32_wasi),
     ("wasm32-wasip1", wasm32_wasip1),
     ("wasm32-wasip2", wasm32_wasip2),

compiler/rustc_target/src/spec/targets/wasm32v1_none.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+//! A "bare wasm" target representing a WebAssembly output that makes zero
+//! assumptions about its environment, similar to wasm32-unknown-unknown, but
+//! that also specifies an _upper_ bound on the set of wasm proposals that are
+//! supported.
+//!
+//! It is implemented as a variant on LLVM's wasm32-unknown-unknown target, with
+//! the additional flags `-Ctarget-cpu=mvp` and `-Ctarget-feature=+mutable-globals`.
+//!
+//! This target exists to resolve a tension in Rustc's choice of WebAssembly
+//! proposals to support. Since most WebAssembly users are in fact _on the web_
+//! and web browsers are frequently updated with support for the latest
+//! features, it is reasonable for Rustc to generate wasm code that exploits new
+//! WebAssembly proposals as they gain browser support. At least by default. And
+//! this is what the wasm32-unknown-unknown target does, which means that the
+//! _exact_ WebAssembly features that Rustc generates will change over time.
+//!
+//! But a different set of users -- smaller but nonetheless worth supporting --
+//! are using WebAssembly in implementations that either don't get updated very
+//! often, or need to prioritize stability, implementation simplicity or
+//! security over feature support. This target is for them, and it promises that
+//! the wasm code it generates will not go beyond the proposals/features of the
+//! W3C WebAssembly core 1.0 spec, which (as far as I can tell) is approximately
+//! "the wasm MVP plus mutable globals". Mutable globals was proposed in 2018
+//! and made it in.
+//!
+//! See https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-1/
+//!
+//! Notably this feature-set _excludes_:
+//!
+//!   - sign-extension operators
+//!   - non-trapping / saturating float-to-int conversions
+//!   - multi-value
+//!   - reference types
+//!   - bulk memory operations
+//!   - SIMD
+//!
+//! These are all listed as additions in the core 2.0 spec. Also they were all
+//! proposed after 2020, and core 1.0 shipped in 2019. It also excludes even
+//! later proposals such as:
+//!
+//!   - exception handling
+//!   - tail calls
+//!   - extended consts
+//!   - function references
+//!   - multi-memory
+//!   - component model
+//!   - gc
+//!   - threads
+//!   - relaxed SIMD
+//!   - custom annotations
+//!   - branch hinting
+//!
+
+use crate::spec::{Cc, LinkerFlavor, Target, base};
+
+pub(crate) fn target() -> Target {
+    let mut options = base::wasm::options();
+    options.os = "none".into();
+
+    options.cpu = "mvp".into();
+    options.features = "+mutable-globals".into();
+
+    options.add_pre_link_args(LinkerFlavor::WasmLld(Cc::No), &[
+        // For now this target just never has an entry symbol no matter the output
+        // type, so unconditionally pass this.
+        "--no-entry",
+    ]);
+    options.add_pre_link_args(LinkerFlavor::WasmLld(Cc::Yes), &[
+        // Make sure clang uses LLD as its linker and is configured appropriately
+        // otherwise
+        "--target=wasm32-unknown-unknown",
+        "-Wl,--no-entry",
+    ]);
+
+    Target {
+        llvm_target: "wasm32-unknown-unknown".into(),
+        metadata: crate::spec::TargetMetadata {
+            description: Some("WebAssembly".into()),
+            tier: Some(2),
+            host_tools: Some(false),
+            std: Some(false),
+        },
+        pointer_width: 32,
+        data_layout: "e-m:e-p:32:32-p10:8:8-p20:8:8-i64:64-n32:64-S128-ni:1:10:20".into(),
+        arch: "wasm32".into(),
+        options,
+    }
+}

tests/assembly/targets/targets-elf.rs

@@ -522,6 +522,9 @@
 //@ revisions: wasm32_unknown_unknown
 //@ [wasm32_unknown_unknown] compile-flags: --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
 //@ [wasm32_unknown_unknown] needs-llvm-components: webassembly
+//@ revisions: wasm32v1_none
+//@ [wasm32v1_none] compile-flags: --target wasm32v1-none
+//@ [wasm32v1_none] needs-llvm-components: webassembly
 //@ revisions: wasm32_wasi
 //@ [wasm32_wasi] compile-flags: --target wasm32-wasi
 //@ [wasm32_wasi] needs-llvm-components: webassembly