document #[used] #361

japaric · 2018-06-20T15:03:08Z

I'm not 100% sure about grouping all those features under an "ABI" section, but having a single #[used] section seemed overkill. I'm open to suggestions about grouping features differently, e.g. using a different section name.

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steveklabnik · 2018-06-20T15:12:41Z

I'm not 100% sure about grouping all those features under an "ABI" section, but having a single #[used] section seemed overkill. I'm open to suggestions about grouping features differently, e.g. using a different section name.

Hmm, yeah. I feel.. the same. Wonder if anyone else has thoughts.

Havvy

An ABI page seems okay to me, especially with the outline of what goes there. The "used" page on the other hand is way too specific for its own page.

You'll also want to add the used attribute to the attributes page and link to where the documentation for it lands. I do think that ultimately all attribute docs should be scattered around the reference where they make sense and not just bunched into attributes.md, so having a few under abi.md sounds good to me.

Havvy · 2018-06-20T20:27:40Z

src/used.md

+
+The `#[used]` attribute can only be applied to `static` variables. This attribute forces the
+compiler to keep the variable in the output object file (.o, .rlib, etc.) even if the variable is
+not *used*, or referenced, by any other item in the crate. Without this attribute the compiler is


We use italics to denote definitions. But it doesn't look like "used" is being defined here.

Havvy · 2018-06-20T20:28:28Z

src/used.md

+
+The `#[used]` attribute can only be applied to `static` variables. This attribute forces the
+compiler to keep the variable in the output object file (.o, .rlib, etc.) even if the variable is
+not *used*, or referenced, by any other item in the crate. Without this attribute the compiler is


This whole line that starts with "Without" is literally just the negation of the previous statement, and feels extremely redundant to me.

Havvy · 2018-06-20T20:31:20Z

src/used.md

+The `#[used]` attribute can only be applied to `static` variables. This attribute forces the
+compiler to keep the variable in the output object file (.o, .rlib, etc.) even if the variable is
+not *used*, or referenced, by any other item in the crate. Without this attribute the compiler is
+free to remove variable if it's *unused*, or dead, when optimizations are enabled.


The language doesn't really have any guarantees about optimized vs. unoptimized behaviour. E.g., it wouldn't be a breaking change if we removed unused items from the binary in debug builds, AFAIK. As such, the "when optimizations are enabled" part should not be stated at all.

Havvy · 2018-06-20T22:43:20Z

src/used.md

+```
+
+``` console
+$ # with optimizations


Definitely should not show the differences between optimized and unoptimized here. A different compiler can make different choices here.

Havvy · 2018-06-20T22:45:55Z

src/abi.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Application Binary Interface (ABI)
+
+This section documents (or will document) features that affect the ABI of a Rust program / binary,


We avoid talking about future plans in the reference. Both the parentheticals here should be removed.

Havvy · 2018-06-20T22:46:20Z

src/abi.md

+This section documents (or will document) features that affect the ABI of a Rust program / binary,
+rlib, dylib, etc. A (likely incomplete) list of such features is shown below:
+
+- #[used]


Should have code backticks for these.

Havvy · 2018-06-20T22:46:59Z

src/used.md

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+## #[used]


There's no reason for this to have its own page. Or anything listed in the ABI section. I'd suggest merging the two pages.

japaric · 2018-06-22T02:41:41Z

@Havvy Thanks for the review. I think I have addressed all your comments in the last commit. Let me know if I missed something.

Havvy

Other than the nits and the whitespace thing, looks good to me.

Havvy · 2018-06-22T03:20:44Z

src/attributes.md

@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 # Attributes

-> **<sup>Syntax</sup>**  


This whitespace is important. (I've made the same mistake before.)

Havvy · 2018-06-22T03:23:27Z

src/abi.md

+#[used]
+static FOO: u32 = 0;
+
+// removed because it's unused


"removed" -> "removable"

Havvy · 2018-06-22T03:23:54Z

src/abi.md

+    &QUUX
+}
+
+// removed because it's referenced by a private, unused (dead) function


"removed" -> "removable"

Havvy · 2018-06-22T03:24:50Z

src/abi.md

+- `#[used]`
+- `extern "$ABI" fn`
+
+## `#[used]`


"The `used` attribute". Attribute names are just the name, not the attribute syntax with it.

Havvy · 2018-06-22T03:27:11Z

src/abi.md

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# Application Binary Interface (ABI)
+
+This section documents features that affect the ABI of a Rust program / binary, rlib, dylib, etc. A


Still a slash here. We try to keep terminology precise in the reference, and the "program / binary" looks very imprecise.

steveklabnik · 2018-09-05T14:22:33Z

ping @japaric ! Are you able to update with the feedback?

Centril · 2019-01-10T18:56:16Z

ping @japaric -- any progress?

- Address review comments. - Add links to other parts of the reference. - Remove "list of features", will move these attributes in a future PR. - Remove feature(used), not needed. - Remove `pub` from QUUX. Otherwise it is the same as BAZ. I believe this was trying to illustrate that a private static accessed from a public function counts as "used".

ehuss · 2019-03-11T01:46:37Z

I have rebased this PR and addressed the review comments. I also made a few minor changes (explained in the last commit). I think it would be good to move the other attributes to the abi page later in a separate PR (export_name, link_section, and no_mangle).

Centril

Aside from the following nits, it LGTM.

src/attributes.md

src/abi.md

done

Centril · 2019-03-11T04:28:13Z

@ehuss Merge when you are happy :)

Havvy · 2019-03-11T05:08:51Z

src/abi.md

+#[allow(dead_code)]
+static BAR: u32 = 0;
+
+// This is kept because it is referenced by a public, reachable function:


This should be on QUUX, not BAZ. BAZ is kept because it is a public static.

Havvy · 2019-03-11T05:14:12Z

src/attributes.md

@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ which can be used to control type layout.
  object file that this item's contents will be placed into.
 - `no_mangle` - on any item, do not apply the standard name mangling. Set the
  symbol for this item to its identifier.
+- [`used`] - on statics, this forces the compiler to keep the variable in the


I don't like adding more attributes to the misc. attributes section. Could we rename Misc. attributes to "Object file attributes"? We could throw no_main, no_start and windows_subsystem in that heading too possibly (I really don't know much about object files...so taking a guess here). Where global_allocator goes, I don't know. Perchance just make it its own section?

I'm looking at regrouping and updating the attributes on the attributes page. I'd like to do that in a separate PR, if that's OK? I've opened issue #534 to discuss this further, I'd be happy if you could leave some feedback since you've done most of the initial work on this.

Havvy · 2019-03-11T19:58:50Z

💟 Thanks @japaric for getting this started and @ehuss for getting it finished.

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		# Application Binary Interface (ABI)

		This section documents (or will document) features that affect the ABI of a Rust program / binary,

		@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
		# Application Binary Interface (ABI)

		This section documents features that affect the ABI of a Rust program / binary, rlib, dylib, etc. A

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