remove all uses of lang_items unstable feature#1950
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This is great. If I understand correctly, if folks try to use a different panic mechanism, they'll get a missing symbol error for eh_personality now, which frankly is probably a good thing, as there are likely other expectations not met by our old empty function.
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1950: remove all uses of lang_items unstable feature r=ppannuto a=hudson-ayers ### Pull Request Overview This pull request removes all uses of the lang_items unstable feature, to get us closer to building Tock on stable rust. Originally, lang_items was required to declare the global panic handler, but that was changed by rust-lang/rust#51366 . After that, we seem to have just kept it around for declaring a dummy `eh_personality()` implementation, which I understand is not needed if you build with panic=abort (which we do for both release and debug builds). see: https://os.phil-opp.com/freestanding-rust-binary/ ### Testing Strategy This pull request was tested by compiling, running a normal app on Imix, and by panicing intentionally and observing the output looks normal. ### TODO or Help Wanted Confirmation that I am correct in my understanding that we do not need eh_personality because we always use panic=abort. ### Documentation Updated - [x] No updates are required. ### Formatting - [x] Ran `make prepush`. Co-authored-by: Hudson Ayers <hayers@stanford.edu>
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Pull Request Overview
This pull request removes all uses of the lang_items unstable feature, to get us closer to building Tock on stable rust.
Originally, lang_items was required to declare the global panic handler, but that was changed by rust-lang/rust#51366 . After that, we seem to have just kept it around for declaring a dummy
eh_personality()implementation, which I understand is not needed if you build with panic=abort (which we do for both release and debug builds). see: https://os.phil-opp.com/freestanding-rust-binary/Testing Strategy
This pull request was tested by compiling, running a normal app on Imix, and by panicing intentionally and observing the output looks normal.
TODO or Help Wanted
Confirmation that I am correct in my understanding that we do not need eh_personality because we always use panic=abort.
Documentation Updated
Formatting
make prepush.