Re: [PATCH 05/13] Rust: Compiler builtins crate

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:46 AM <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We also need a helpers C source file to contain some forwarders
> to C macros and inlined functions. For the moment, we only need it
> to call the `BUG()` macro, but we will be adding more later.

Not being a Rust person, I can only guess based on random pattern
matching, but this _looks_ like these "panicking intrinsics" panic at
run-time (by calling BUG()).

Is there some way these things could cause built-time link errors
instead, so that if somebody uses 128-bit shifts, or floating point
ops in the rust code, they show up as build failures, not as run-time
ones?

Hmm?

          Linus