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Stop passing -export-dynamic to wasm-ld.

-export-dynamic was a temporary hack added in the early days of the Rust wasm32 target when Rust didn't have a way to specify wasm exports in the source code. This flag causes all global symbols, and some compiler-internal symbols, to be exported, which is often more than needed.

Rust now does have a way to specify exports in the source code: `#[export_name = "..."]`.

So as the original comment suggests, -export-dynamic can now be removed, allowing users to have smaller binaries and better encapsulation in their wasm32-unknown-unknown modules.

It's possible that this change will require existing wasm32-unknown-unknown users will to add explicit `#[export_name = "..."]` directives to exporrt the symbols that their programs depend on having exported.
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matthiaskrgr committed Dec 8, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -33,12 +33,6 @@ pub fn target() -> Target {
// For now this target just never has an entry symbol no matter the output
// type, so unconditionally pass this.
"--no-entry",
// Rust really needs a way for users to specify exports and imports in
// the source code. --export-dynamic isn't the right tool for this job,
// however it does have the side effect of automatically exporting a lot
// of symbols, which approximates what people want when compiling for
// wasm32-unknown-unknown expect, so use it for now.
"--export-dynamic",
],
);
options.add_pre_link_args(
Expand All @@ -48,7 +42,6 @@ pub fn target() -> Target {
// otherwise
"--target=wasm32-unknown-unknown",
"-Wl,--no-entry",
"-Wl,--export-dynamic",
],
);

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