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Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:

symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
          C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

It turns out that EMPTY_PANIC is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with # (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with # when attempting to import it.

The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with # when importing.

Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with DATA, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.

Fixes #138541

Resurrects #140176 now that #141061 is merged, which removes the incompatibility with __rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable.

r? @wesleywiser

CC @bjorn3

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This PR modifies run-make tests.

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bjorn3 commented Jun 20, 2025

@bors2 try jobs=x86_64-msvc-,x86_64-mingw-,dist-aarch64-msvc

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[win][aarch64] Fix linking statics on Arm64EC, take 2

Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
          C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```

It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.

The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.

Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.

Fixes #138541

Resurrects #140176 now that #141061 is merged, which removes the incompatibility with `__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable`.

r? `@wesleywiser`

CC `@bjorn3`
try-job: x86_64-msvc-
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pub trait Copy {}
impl Copy for i32 {}
#[lang = "drop_in_place"]
pub unsafe fn drop_in_place<T: ?Sized>(_: *mut T) {}
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Can this test use mini_core? Or does that not work for run-make tests?

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bjorn3 commented Jun 20, 2025

@bors2 try jobs=x86_64-msvc-*,x86_64-mingw-*,dist-aarch64-msvc

Edit: Seems to be rust-lang/bors#314

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You'll need to use the try-job-in-PR-description form

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bjorn3 commented Jun 20, 2025

@bors2 try

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[win][aarch64] Fix linking statics on Arm64EC, take 2

Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
          C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```

It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.

The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.

Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.

Fixes #138541

Resurrects #140176 now that #141061 is merged, which removes the incompatibility with `__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable`.

r? `@wesleywiser`

CC `@bjorn3`

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try-job: x86_64-msvc-*
try-job: x86_64-mingw-*
try-job: dist-aarch64-msvc
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@@ -755,7 +758,7 @@ pub(crate) fn extend_exported_symbols<'tcx>(
let undecorated = symbol_name_for_instance_in_crate(tcx, symbol, instantiating_crate);

// Add the symbol for the kernel descriptor (with .kd suffix)
symbols.push(format!("{undecorated}.kd"));
symbols.push((format!("{undecorated}.kd"), info.kind));
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This should be SymbolExportKind::Data. According to https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#symbols, this symbol will be STT_OBJECT rather than STT_FUNC. It is some (non-executable) metadata for the function.

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