change the default linker of the ARM Cortex-M targets

src/librustc_target/spec/thumb_base.rs

@@ -42,9 +42,8 @@ pub fn opts() -> TargetOptions {
     // See rust-lang/rfcs#1645 for a discussion about these defaults
     TargetOptions {
         executables: true,
-        // In 99%+ of cases, we want to use the `arm-none-eabi-gcc` compiler (there aren't many
-        // options around)
-        linker: Some("arm-none-eabi-gcc".to_string()),
+        // In most cases, LLD is good enough
+        linker: Some("rust-lld".to_string()),
         // Because these devices have very little resources having an unwinder is too onerous so we
         // default to "abort" because the "unwind" strategy is very rare.
         panic_strategy: PanicStrategy::Abort,

src/librustc_target/spec/thumbv6m_none_eabi.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 // Targets the Cortex-M0, Cortex-M0+ and Cortex-M1 processors (ARMv6-M architecture)
 
-use spec::{LinkerFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
+use spec::{LinkerFlavor, LldFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
 
 pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
     Ok(Target {
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
         target_os: "none".to_string(),
         target_env: String::new(),
         target_vendor: String::new(),
-        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Gcc,
+        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Lld(LldFlavor::Ld),
 
         options: TargetOptions {
             // The ARMv6-M architecture doesn't support unaligned loads/stores so we disable them

src/librustc_target/spec/thumbv7em_none_eabi.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 // To opt-in to hardware accelerated floating point operations, you can use, for example,
 // `-C target-feature=+vfp4` or `-C target-cpu=cortex-m4`.
 
-use spec::{LinkerFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
+use spec::{LinkerFlavor, LldFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
 
 pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
     Ok(Target {
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
         target_os: "none".to_string(),
         target_env: String::new(),
         target_vendor: String::new(),
-        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Gcc,
+        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Lld(LldFlavor::Ld),
 
         options: TargetOptions {
             max_atomic_width: Some(32),

src/librustc_target/spec/thumbv7em_none_eabihf.rs

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 //
 // To opt into double precision hardware support, use the `-C target-feature=-fp-only-sp` flag.
 
-use spec::{LinkerFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
+use spec::{LinkerFlavor, LldFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
 
 pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
     Ok(Target {
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
         target_os: "none".to_string(),
         target_env: String::new(),
         target_vendor: String::new(),
-        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Gcc,
+        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Lld(LldFlavor::Ld),
 
         options: TargetOptions {
             // `+vfp4` is the lowest common denominator between the Cortex-M4 (vfp4-16) and the

src/librustc_target/spec/thumbv7m_none_eabi.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 // Targets the Cortex-M3 processor (ARMv7-M)
 
-use spec::{LinkerFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
+use spec::{LinkerFlavor, LldFlavor, Target, TargetOptions, TargetResult};
 
 pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
     Ok(Target {
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
         target_os: "none".to_string(),
         target_env: String::new(),
         target_vendor: String::new(),
-        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Gcc,
+        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Lld(LldFlavor::Ld),
 
         options: TargetOptions {
             max_atomic_width: Some(32),