`Invalid LLVMRustVisibility value!` error on `cargo build` after upgrading from 1.53.0 to 1.54.0

[datdenkikniet]

After upgrading our toolchains from 1.53.0 to 1.54.0, our bootloader rust crates stopped building.

Instead, the build command produced the error message LLVM ERROR: Invalid LLVMRustVisibility value!.

Code

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I expected to see this happen: the build to succeed

Instead, this happened: the build failed

Version it worked on

It most recently worked on: Rust 1.53

Version with regression

rustc --version --verbose:

rustc 1.54.0 (a178d0322 2021-07-26)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: a178d0322ce20e33eac124758e837cbd80a6f633
commit-date: 2021-07-26
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.54.0
LLVM version: 12.0.1

Backtrace

The compiler did not crash or produce a backtrace.

[hellow554]

Looks like a dup of #87813

[datdenkikniet]

Ah, it does appear to be. We had several extern "C" blocks with definitions with the same name. After merging them together so that the extern "C" variables only occurred once the projects started compiling again.

The sections looked as follows, if that helps. They were repeated a few times in different scopes:

extern "C" {
    static mut __bootloader_magic_value__: u32;
    static mut __firmware_start__: u32;
}

Thank you for the heads up.

[hellow554]

You may search whether you have declarations that have the same name, but a different type. I was only able to reproduce the error with that constraint, see #87813 (comment)

[datdenkikniet]

All declarations have the same type, everywhere (u32). It could be that the issues are related but not strictly the same.

[hellow554]

Can you use the https://github.com/kennytm/rustup-toolchain-install-master project to get a "-alt" nightly (which has LLVM assertions enabled) and try to compile your code with it. Does it give you the same result as #87813 (comment) ?

[datdenkikniet]

I've tried, but it seems as though the target we build for isn't (easily?) available that way.

rustup-toolchain-install-master -a -t thumbv7em-none-eabihf doesn't work, and I'm not sure how to get it to work. Any guidance?

[hellow554]

Try this (replace the hash if needed):

rustup-toolchain-install-master -a -c rust-src -f
cargo +d488de82f30fd1dcb0220d57498638596622394e-alt build --target thumbv7em-none-eabihf -Zbuild-std

[datdenkikniet]

Thank you, now running cargo build worked.

It does seem to be the same issue as in #87813 (comment), apart from the fact that our types are all the same.

rustc: /checkout/src/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/Support/Casting.h:269: typename cast_retty<X, Y *>::ret_type llvm::cast(Y *) [X = llvm::GlobalValue, Y = llvm::Value]: Assertion `isa<X>(Val) && "cast<Ty>() argument of incompatible type!"' failed.