rustc: reorganize driver, replace compile_upto with multiple more-obvious functions. #8077
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The purpose here is to get rid of compile_upto, which pretty much always requires the user to read the source to figure out what it does. It's replaced by a sequence of obviously-named functions:
Each of which takes what it takes and returns what it returns, with as little variation as possible in behaviour: no "pairs of options" and "pairs of control flags". You can tell if you missed a phase because you will be missing a
phase_N
call to someN
between 1 and 6.It does mean that people invoking librustc from outside need to write more function calls. The benefit is that they can figure out what they're doing much more easily, and stop at any point, rather than further overloading the tangled logic of
compile_upto
.