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Auto merge of #137535 - Kobzol:split-metadata, r=petrochenkov
Introduce `-Zembed-metadata` to allow omitting full metadata from rlibs and dylibs This is a continuation of rust-lang/rust#120855 (I was mentored by `@bjorn3` to move it forward). Most of the original code was written by bjorn3, I tried to clean it up a bit and add some documentation and tests. This PR introduces a new unstable compiler flag called `-Zembed-metadata=[no|yes]`, with the default being `yes` (see rust-lang/rust#57076 for context). When set to `no`, rustc will only store a small metadata stub inside rlibs/dylibs instead of the full metadata, to keep their size smaller. It should be used in combination with `--emit=metadata`, so that the users of such a compiled library can still read the metadata from the corresponding `.rmeta` file. [This comment](rust-lang/rust#120855 (comment)) shows an example of binary/artifact size wins that can be achieved using this approach. Contrary to rust-lang/rust#120855, this PR only introduces the new flag, along with a couple of run-make tests and documentation, but does not yet use it in bootstrap to actually compile rustc. I plan to do that as a follow-up step (along with integration in Cargo, which should ideally just always pass this flag to reduce the size of target directories). Fixes rust-lang/rust#23366 Closes rust-lang/rust#29511 Fixes rust-lang/rust#57076 Another attempt of rust-lang/rust#93945 and rust-lang/rust#120855. r? `@petrochenkov`
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