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This would be great to have! It's essentially splitting off Windows 7 into a separate target so I do wonder if the compiler team would be ok starting at tier 2. The code, as it stands now, would be the same but can then diverge as and when needed. |
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As per our target policy, we should treat this as if it is a demotion of a tier one target, so we probably need to get sign-off from the compiler team to add this target via an MCP, could you submit one?
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Isn't the demotion already happened in MCP 651? Windows 7 support has been dropped completely, and this PR adds it back as a new (tier 3) target. |
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I'd be happy to make an MCP, but I was under the impression that Windows 7 had already been demoted in MCP651, so this target is really just reintroducing its support as a new target here. Does that require an MCP too? If so, I can go ahead and make one. Regarding Tier, I'd be happy to go straight for Tier2, but the policy states that there needs to be at least two maintainers responsible for a T2 target - I'm currently working on this alone. |
I guess MCP651 can cover this - I'm not sure we've got a precedent for this change. I'm happy to merge this with tier three. I'm not too sure about using the vendor field for
Let's keep this at tier three for now. |
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Add new targets {x86_64,i686}-win7-windows-msvc
This PR adds two new Tier 3 targets, x86_64-win7-windows-msvc and i686-win7-windows-msvc, that aim to support targeting Windows 7 after the `*-pc-windows-msvc` target drops support for it (slated to happen in 1.76.0).
# Tier 3 target policy
> At this tier, the Rust project provides no official support for a target, so we place minimal requirements on the introduction of targets.
>
> A proposed new tier 3 target must be reviewed and approved by a member of the compiler team based on these requirements. The reviewer may choose to gauge broader compiler team consensus via a [Major Change Proposal (MCP)](https://forge.rust-lang.org/compiler/mcp.html).
>
> A proposed target or target-specific patch that substantially changes code shared with other targets (not just target-specific code) must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate team for that shared code before acceptance.
>
> - A tier 3 target must have a designated developer or developers (the "target maintainers") on record to be CCed when issues arise regarding the target. (The mechanism to track and CC such developers may evolve over time.)
This is me, ``@roblabla`` on github.
> - Targets must use naming consistent with any existing targets; for instance, a target for the same CPU or OS as an existing Rust target should use the same name for that CPU or OS. Targets should normally use the same names and naming conventions as used elsewhere in the broader ecosystem beyond Rust (such as in other toolchains), unless they have a very good reason to diverge. Changing the name of a target can be highly disruptive, especially once the target reaches a higher tier, so getting the name right is important even for a tier 3 target.
I went with naming the target `x86_64-win7-windows-msvc`, inserting the `win7` in the vendor field (usually set to to `pc`). This is done to avoid ecosystem churn, as quite a few crates have `cfg(target_os = "windows")` or `cfg(target_env = "msvc")`, but nearly no `cfg(target_vendor = "pc")`. Since my goal is to be able to seamlessly swap to the `win7` target, I figured it'd be easier this way.
> - Target names should not introduce undue confusion or ambiguity unless absolutely necessary to maintain ecosystem compatibility. For example, if the name of the target makes people extremely likely to form incorrect beliefs about what it targets, the name should be changed or augmented to disambiguate it.
I believe the naming is pretty explicit.
> - If possible, use only letters, numbers, dashes and underscores for the name. Periods (`.`) are known to cause issues in Cargo.
The name comforms to this requirement.
> - Tier 3 targets may have unusual requirements to build or use, but must not create legal issues or impose onerous legal terms for the Rust project or for Rust developers or users.
> - The target must not introduce license incompatibilities.
> - Anything added to the Rust repository must be under the standard Rust license (`MIT OR Apache-2.0`).
> - The target must not cause the Rust tools or libraries built for any other host (even when supporting cross-compilation to the target) to depend on any new dependency less permissive than the Rust licensing policy. This applies whether the dependency is a Rust crate that would require adding new license exceptions (as specified by the `tidy` tool in the rust-lang/rust repository), or whether the dependency is a native library or binary. In other words, the introduction of the target must not cause a user installing or running a version of Rust or the Rust tools to be subject to any new license requirements.
> - Compiling, linking, and emitting functional binaries, libraries, or other code for the target (whether hosted on the target itself or cross-compiling from another target) must not depend on proprietary (non-FOSS) libraries. Host tools built for the target itself may depend on the ordinary runtime libraries supplied by the platform and commonly used by other applications built for the target, but those libraries must not be required for code generation for the target; cross-compilation to the target must not require such libraries at all. For instance, `rustc` built for the target may depend on a common proprietary C runtime library or console output library, but must not depend on a proprietary code generation library or code optimization library. Rust's license permits such combinations, but the Rust project has no interest in maintaining such combinations within the scope of Rust itself, even at tier 3.
> - "onerous" here is an intentionally subjective term. At a minimum, "onerous" legal/licensing terms include but are *not* limited to: non-disclosure requirements, non-compete requirements, contributor license agreements (CLAs) or equivalent, "non-commercial"/"research-only"/etc terms, requirements conditional on the employer or employment of any particular Rust developers, revocable terms, any requirements that create liability for the Rust project or its developers or users, or any requirements that adversely affect the livelihood or prospects of the Rust project or its developers or users.
As far as I understand it, this target has exactly the same legal situation as the existing Tier 1 x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.
> - Neither this policy nor any decisions made regarding targets shall create any binding agreement or estoppel by any party. If any member of an approving Rust team serves as one of the maintainers of a target, or has any legal or employment requirement (explicit or implicit) that might affect their decisions regarding a target, they must recuse themselves from any approval decisions regarding the target's tier status, though they may otherwise participate in discussions.
> - This requirement does not prevent part or all of this policy from being cited in an explicit contract or work agreement (e.g. to implement or maintain support for a target). This requirement exists to ensure that a developer or team responsible for reviewing and approving a target does not face any legal threats or obligations that would prevent them from freely exercising their judgment in such approval, even if such judgment involves subjective matters or goes beyond the letter of these requirements.
Understood.
> - Tier 3 targets should attempt to implement as much of the standard libraries as possible and appropriate (core for most targets, alloc for targets that can support dynamic memory allocation, std for targets with an operating system or equivalent layer of system-provided functionality), but may leave some code unimplemented (either unavailable or stubbed out as appropriate), whether because the target makes it impossible to implement or challenging to implement. The authors of pull requests are not obligated to avoid calling any portions of the standard library on the basis of a tier 3 target not implementing those portions.
This target supports the whole libstd surface, since it's essentially reusing all of the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target. Understood.
> - The target must provide documentation for the Rust community explaining how to build for the target, using cross-compilation if possible. If the target supports running binaries, or running tests (even if they do not pass), the documentation must explain how to run such binaries or tests for the target, using emulation if possible or dedicated hardware if necessary.
Wrote some documentation on how to build, test and cross-compile the target in the `platform-support` part. Hopefully it's enough to get started.
> - Tier 3 targets must not impose burden on the authors of pull requests, or other developers in the community, to maintain the target. In particular, do not post comments (automated or manual) on a PR that derail or suggest a block on the PR based on a tier 3 target. Do not send automated messages or notifications (via any medium, including via ```@`)`` to a PR author or others involved with a PR regarding a tier 3 target, unless they have opted into such messages.
> - Backlinks such as those generated by the issue/PR tracker when linking to an issue or PR are not considered a violation of this policy, within reason. However, such messages (even on a separate repository) must not generate notifications to anyone involved with a PR who has not requested such notifications.
Understood.
> - Patches adding or updating tier 3 targets must not break any existing tier 2 or tier 1 target, and must not knowingly break another tier 3 target without approval of either the compiler team or the maintainers of the other tier 3 target.
> - In particular, this may come up when working on closely related targets, such as variations of the same architecture with different features. Avoid introducing unconditional uses of features that another variation of the target may not have; use conditional compilation or runtime detection, as appropriate, to let each target run code supported by that target.
Understood.
> If a tier 3 target stops meeting these requirements, or the target maintainers no longer have interest or time, or the target shows no signs of activity and has not built for some time, or removing the target would improve the quality of the Rust codebase, we may post a PR to remove it; any such PR will be CCed to the target maintainers (and potentially other people who have previously worked on the target), to check potential interest in improving the situation.
Understood.
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Add new targets {x86_64,i686}-win7-windows-msvc
This PR adds two new Tier 3 targets, x86_64-win7-windows-msvc and i686-win7-windows-msvc, that aim to support targeting Windows 7 after the `*-pc-windows-msvc` target drops support for it (slated to happen in 1.76.0).
# Tier 3 target policy
> At this tier, the Rust project provides no official support for a target, so we place minimal requirements on the introduction of targets.
>
> A proposed new tier 3 target must be reviewed and approved by a member of the compiler team based on these requirements. The reviewer may choose to gauge broader compiler team consensus via a [Major Change Proposal (MCP)](https://forge.rust-lang.org/compiler/mcp.html).
>
> A proposed target or target-specific patch that substantially changes code shared with other targets (not just target-specific code) must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate team for that shared code before acceptance.
>
> - A tier 3 target must have a designated developer or developers (the "target maintainers") on record to be CCed when issues arise regarding the target. (The mechanism to track and CC such developers may evolve over time.)
This is me, ```@roblabla``` on github.
> - Targets must use naming consistent with any existing targets; for instance, a target for the same CPU or OS as an existing Rust target should use the same name for that CPU or OS. Targets should normally use the same names and naming conventions as used elsewhere in the broader ecosystem beyond Rust (such as in other toolchains), unless they have a very good reason to diverge. Changing the name of a target can be highly disruptive, especially once the target reaches a higher tier, so getting the name right is important even for a tier 3 target.
I went with naming the target `x86_64-win7-windows-msvc`, inserting the `win7` in the vendor field (usually set to to `pc`). This is done to avoid ecosystem churn, as quite a few crates have `cfg(target_os = "windows")` or `cfg(target_env = "msvc")`, but nearly no `cfg(target_vendor = "pc")`. Since my goal is to be able to seamlessly swap to the `win7` target, I figured it'd be easier this way.
> - Target names should not introduce undue confusion or ambiguity unless absolutely necessary to maintain ecosystem compatibility. For example, if the name of the target makes people extremely likely to form incorrect beliefs about what it targets, the name should be changed or augmented to disambiguate it.
I believe the naming is pretty explicit.
> - If possible, use only letters, numbers, dashes and underscores for the name. Periods (`.`) are known to cause issues in Cargo.
The name comforms to this requirement.
> - Tier 3 targets may have unusual requirements to build or use, but must not create legal issues or impose onerous legal terms for the Rust project or for Rust developers or users.
> - The target must not introduce license incompatibilities.
> - Anything added to the Rust repository must be under the standard Rust license (`MIT OR Apache-2.0`).
> - The target must not cause the Rust tools or libraries built for any other host (even when supporting cross-compilation to the target) to depend on any new dependency less permissive than the Rust licensing policy. This applies whether the dependency is a Rust crate that would require adding new license exceptions (as specified by the `tidy` tool in the rust-lang/rust repository), or whether the dependency is a native library or binary. In other words, the introduction of the target must not cause a user installing or running a version of Rust or the Rust tools to be subject to any new license requirements.
> - Compiling, linking, and emitting functional binaries, libraries, or other code for the target (whether hosted on the target itself or cross-compiling from another target) must not depend on proprietary (non-FOSS) libraries. Host tools built for the target itself may depend on the ordinary runtime libraries supplied by the platform and commonly used by other applications built for the target, but those libraries must not be required for code generation for the target; cross-compilation to the target must not require such libraries at all. For instance, `rustc` built for the target may depend on a common proprietary C runtime library or console output library, but must not depend on a proprietary code generation library or code optimization library. Rust's license permits such combinations, but the Rust project has no interest in maintaining such combinations within the scope of Rust itself, even at tier 3.
> - "onerous" here is an intentionally subjective term. At a minimum, "onerous" legal/licensing terms include but are *not* limited to: non-disclosure requirements, non-compete requirements, contributor license agreements (CLAs) or equivalent, "non-commercial"/"research-only"/etc terms, requirements conditional on the employer or employment of any particular Rust developers, revocable terms, any requirements that create liability for the Rust project or its developers or users, or any requirements that adversely affect the livelihood or prospects of the Rust project or its developers or users.
As far as I understand it, this target has exactly the same legal situation as the existing Tier 1 x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.
> - Neither this policy nor any decisions made regarding targets shall create any binding agreement or estoppel by any party. If any member of an approving Rust team serves as one of the maintainers of a target, or has any legal or employment requirement (explicit or implicit) that might affect their decisions regarding a target, they must recuse themselves from any approval decisions regarding the target's tier status, though they may otherwise participate in discussions.
> - This requirement does not prevent part or all of this policy from being cited in an explicit contract or work agreement (e.g. to implement or maintain support for a target). This requirement exists to ensure that a developer or team responsible for reviewing and approving a target does not face any legal threats or obligations that would prevent them from freely exercising their judgment in such approval, even if such judgment involves subjective matters or goes beyond the letter of these requirements.
Understood.
> - Tier 3 targets should attempt to implement as much of the standard libraries as possible and appropriate (core for most targets, alloc for targets that can support dynamic memory allocation, std for targets with an operating system or equivalent layer of system-provided functionality), but may leave some code unimplemented (either unavailable or stubbed out as appropriate), whether because the target makes it impossible to implement or challenging to implement. The authors of pull requests are not obligated to avoid calling any portions of the standard library on the basis of a tier 3 target not implementing those portions.
This target supports the whole libstd surface, since it's essentially reusing all of the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target. Understood.
> - The target must provide documentation for the Rust community explaining how to build for the target, using cross-compilation if possible. If the target supports running binaries, or running tests (even if they do not pass), the documentation must explain how to run such binaries or tests for the target, using emulation if possible or dedicated hardware if necessary.
Wrote some documentation on how to build, test and cross-compile the target in the `platform-support` part. Hopefully it's enough to get started.
> - Tier 3 targets must not impose burden on the authors of pull requests, or other developers in the community, to maintain the target. In particular, do not post comments (automated or manual) on a PR that derail or suggest a block on the PR based on a tier 3 target. Do not send automated messages or notifications (via any medium, including via ````@`)``` to a PR author or others involved with a PR regarding a tier 3 target, unless they have opted into such messages.
> - Backlinks such as those generated by the issue/PR tracker when linking to an issue or PR are not considered a violation of this policy, within reason. However, such messages (even on a separate repository) must not generate notifications to anyone involved with a PR who has not requested such notifications.
Understood.
> - Patches adding or updating tier 3 targets must not break any existing tier 2 or tier 1 target, and must not knowingly break another tier 3 target without approval of either the compiler team or the maintainers of the other tier 3 target.
> - In particular, this may come up when working on closely related targets, such as variations of the same architecture with different features. Avoid introducing unconditional uses of features that another variation of the target may not have; use conditional compilation or runtime detection, as appropriate, to let each target run code supported by that target.
Understood.
> If a tier 3 target stops meeting these requirements, or the target maintainers no longer have interest or time, or the target shows no signs of activity and has not built for some time, or removing the target would improve the quality of the Rust codebase, we may post a PR to remove it; any such PR will be CCed to the target maintainers (and potentially other people who have previously worked on the target), to check potential interest in improving the situation.
Understood.
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…llaumeGomez Rollup of 5 pull requests Successful merges: - rust-lang#118150 (Add new targets {x86_64,i686}-win7-windows-msvc) - rust-lang#118417 (Add unstable `-Zdefault-hidden-visibility` cmdline flag for `rustc`.) - rust-lang#118692 (remove redundant imports) - rust-lang#118694 (Add instance evaluation and methods to read an allocation in StableMIR) - rust-lang#118737 (Extend tidy alphabetical checking to `tests/`.) r? `@ghost` `@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
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I think it's the one which failed in #118745. |
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Since the failed tests mention |
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My apologies, you're right. |
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@roblabla I was looking at the |
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Oops, that was missed. |
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…rieb Fix: Properly set vendor in i686-win7-windows-msvc target In rust-lang#118150 , setting the `vendor` field of the `i686-win7-windows-msvc` target was forgotten, preventing us from easily checking the target using `cfg(target_vendor)`. With this PR, we set the target vendor to "win7".
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#119544 - roblabla:new-win7-targets, r=Nilstrieb Fix: Properly set vendor in i686-win7-windows-msvc target In rust-lang#118150 , setting the `vendor` field of the `i686-win7-windows-msvc` target was forgotten, preventing us from easily checking the target using `cfg(target_vendor)`. With this PR, we set the target vendor to "win7".
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Pkgsrc changes: * Adapt checksums and patches. Upstream chnages: Version 1.76.0 (2024-02-08) ========================== Language -------- - [Document Rust ABI compatibility between various types] (rust-lang/rust#115476) - [Also: guarantee that char and u32 are ABI-compatible] (rust-lang/rust#118032) - [Warn against ambiguous wide pointer comparisons] (rust-lang/rust#117758) Compiler -------- - [Lint pinned `#[must_use]` pointers (in particular, `Box<T>` where `T` is `#[must_use]`) in `unused_must_use`.] (rust-lang/rust#118054) - [Soundness fix: fix computing the offset of an unsized field in a packed struct] (rust-lang/rust#118540) - [Soundness fix: fix dynamic size/align computation logic for packed types with dyn Trait tail] (rust-lang/rust#118538) - [Add `$message_type` field to distinguish json diagnostic outputs] (rust-lang/rust#115691) - [Enable Rust to use the EHCont security feature of Windows] (rust-lang/rust#118013) - [Add tier 3 {x86_64,i686}-win7-windows-msvc targets] (rust-lang/rust#118150) - [Add tier 3 aarch64-apple-watchos target] (rust-lang/rust#119074) - [Add tier 3 arm64e-apple-ios & arm64e-apple-darwin targets] (rust-lang/rust#115526) Refer to Rust's [platform support page][platform-support-doc] for more information on Rust's tiered platform support. Libraries --------- - [Add a column number to `dbg!()`] (rust-lang/rust#114962) - [Add `std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState}` exports] (rust-lang/rust#115694) - [Fix rounding issue with exponents in fmt] (rust-lang/rust#116301) - [Add T: ?Sized to `RwLockReadGuard` and `RwLockWriteGuard`'s Debug impls.] (rust-lang/rust#117138) - [Windows: Allow `File::create` to work on hidden files] (rust-lang/rust#116438) Stabilized APIs --------------- - [`Arc::unwrap_or_clone`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/sync/struct.Arc.html#method.unwrap_or_clone) - [`Rc::unwrap_or_clone`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/rc/struct.Rc.html#method.unwrap_or_clone) - [`Result::inspect`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/result/enum.Result.html#method.inspect) - [`Result::inspect_err`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/result/enum.Result.html#method.inspect_err) - [`Option::inspect`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.inspect) - [`type_name_of_val`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/any/fn.type_name_of_val.html) - [`std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState}`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/hash/index.html#structs) These were previously available only through `std::collections::hash_map`. - [`ptr::{from_ref, from_mut}`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.from_ref.html) - [`ptr::addr_eq`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.addr_eq.html) Cargo ----- See [Cargo release notes] (https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#cargo-176-2024-02-08). Rustdoc ------- - [Don't merge cfg and doc(cfg) attributes for re-exports] (rust-lang/rust#113091) - [rustdoc: allow resizing the sidebar / hiding the top bar] (rust-lang/rust#115660) - [rustdoc-search: add support for traits and associated types] (rust-lang/rust#116085) - [rustdoc: Add highlighting for comments in items declaration] (rust-lang/rust#117869) Compatibility Notes ------------------- - [Add allow-by-default lint for unit bindings] (rust-lang/rust#112380) This is expected to be upgraded to a warning by default in a future Rust release. Some macros emit bindings with type `()` with user-provided spans, which means that this lint will warn for user code. - [Remove x86_64-sun-solaris target.] (rust-lang/rust#118091) - [Remove asmjs-unknown-emscripten target] (rust-lang/rust#117338) - [Report errors in jobserver inherited through environment variables] (rust-lang/rust#113730) This [may warn](rust-lang/rust#120515) on benign problems too. - [Update the minimum external LLVM to 16.] (rust-lang/rust#117947) - [Improve `print_tts`](rust-lang/rust#114571) This change can break some naive manual parsing of token trees in proc macro code which expect a particular structure after `.to_string()`, rather than just arbitrary Rust code. - [Make `IMPLIED_BOUNDS_ENTAILMENT` into a hard error from a lint] (rust-lang/rust#117984) - [Vec's allocation behavior was changed when collecting some iterators] (rust-lang/rust#110353) Allocation behavior is currently not specified, nevertheless changes can be surprising. See [`impl FromIterator for Vec`] (https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#impl-FromIterator%3CT%3E-for-Vec%3CT%3E) for more details. - [Properly reject `default` on free const items] (rust-lang/rust#117818)
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This PR adds two new Tier 3 targets, x86_64-win7-windows-msvc and i686-win7-windows-msvc, that aim to support targeting Windows 7 after the
*-pc-windows-msvctarget drops support for it (slated to happen in 1.76.0).Tier 3 target policy
This is me, @roblabla on github.
I went with naming the target
x86_64-win7-windows-msvc, inserting thewin7in the vendor field (usually set to topc). This is done to avoid ecosystem churn, as quite a few crates havecfg(target_os = "windows")orcfg(target_env = "msvc"), but nearly nocfg(target_vendor = "pc"). Since my goal is to be able to seamlessly swap to thewin7target, I figured it'd be easier this way.I believe the naming is pretty explicit.
The name comforms to this requirement.
As far as I understand it, this target has exactly the same legal situation as the existing Tier 1 x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.
Understood.
This target supports the whole libstd surface, since it's essentially reusing all of the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target. Understood.
Wrote some documentation on how to build, test and cross-compile the target in the
platform-supportpart. Hopefully it's enough to get started.Understood.
Understood.
Understood.