mozilla/rust — pull request #10916 by alexcrichton (2013-12-11 07:29:38+00:00)
Title: Disable all unwinding on -Z no-landing-pads LTO

When performing LTO, the rust compiler has an opportunity to completely strip
all landing pads in all dependent libraries. I've modified the LTO pass to
recognize the -Z no-landing-pads option when also running an LTO pass to flag
everything in LLVM as nothrow. I've verified that this prevents any and all
invoke instructions from being emitted.

I believe that this is one of our best options for moving forward with
accomodating use-cases where unwinding doesn't really make sense. This will
allow libraries to be built with landing pads by default but allow usage of them
in contexts where landing pads aren't necessary.

Closes #10780