os::args() was using str::raw::from_c_str(), which would assert if the
C-string wasn't valid UTF-8. Switch to using from_utf8_lossy() instead,
and add a separate function os::args_as_bytes() that returns the ~[u8]
byte-vectors instead.

This will hopefully bring us closer to #11937. We're still using gcc's idea of
"startup files", but this should prevent us from leaking in dependencies that we
don't quite want (libgcc for example once compiler-rt is what we use).

This will hopefully bring us closer to #11937. We're still using gcc's idea of
"startup files", but this should prevent us from leaking in dependencies that we
don't quite want (libgcc for example once compiler-rt is what we use).

Includes an upstream commit by pcwalton to improve codegen of our enums getting
moved around.

This also introduces a new commit on top of our stack of patches to fix a mingw32 build issue. I have submitted the patch upstream: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140210/204653.html

I verified that this builds on the try bots, which amazes me because I think that c++11 is turned on now, but I guess we're still lucky!

Closes #10613 (pcwalton's patch landed)
Closes #11992 (llvm has removed these options)

Includes an upstream commit by pcwalton to improve codegen of our enums getting
moved around.

The old method of building up a list of items and threading it through
all of the decorators was unwieldy and not really scalable as
non-deriving ItemDecorators become possible. The API is now that the
decorator gets an immutable reference to the item it's attached to, and
a callback that it can pass new items to. If we want to add syntax
extensions that can modify the item they're attached to, we can add that
later, but I think it'll have to be separate from ItemDecorator to avoid
strange ordering issues.

@huonw

Fix some fall out from the big command line option changes.

Any single-threaded task benchmark will spend a good chunk of time in `kqueue()` on osx and `epoll()` on linux, and the reason for this is that each time a task is terminated it will hit the syscall. When a task terminates, it context switches back to the scheduler thread, and the scheduler thread falls out of `run_sched_once` whenever it figures out that it did some work.

If we know that `epoll()` will return nothing, then we can continue to do work locally (only while there's work to be done). We must fall back to `epoll()` whenever there's active I/O in order to check whether it's ready or not, but without that (which is largely the case in benchmarks), we can prevent the costly syscall and can get a nice speedup.

I've separated the commits into preparation for this change and then the change itself, the last commit message has more details.

The old method of building up a list of items and threading it through
all of the decorators was unwieldy and not really scalable as
non-deriving ItemDecorators become possible. The API is now that the
decorator gets an immutable reference to the item it's attached to, and
a callback that it can pass new items to. If we want to add syntax
extensions that can modify the item they're attached to, we can add that
later, but I think it'll have to be separate from ItemDecorator to avoid
strange ordering issues.

Android bot has been having some problems. A few details in the commits.

These seem to be causing iloops on the bots. Let's rather see the errors.

This is an attempt to isolate test failures on the bots. It may also
eliminate problems with the emulators breaking by reducing the chance
of OOM.

These commits pick off some low-hanging fruit which were slowing down spawning green threads. The major speedup comes from fixing a bug in stack caching where we never used any cached stacks!

The program I used to benchmark is at the end. It was compiled with `rustc --opt-level=3 bench.rs --test` and run as `RUST_THREADS=1 ./bench --bench`. I chose to use `RUST_THREADS=1` due to #11730 as the profiles I was getting interfered too much when all the schedulers were in play (and shouldn't be after #11730 is fixed). All of the units below are in ns/iter as reported by `--bench` (lower is better).

|               | green | native | raw    |
| ------------- | ----- | ------ | ------ |
| osx before    | 12699 | 24030  | 19734  |
| linux before  | 10223 | 125983 | 122647 |
| osx after     |  3847 | 25771  | 20835  |
| linux after   |  2631 | 135398 | 122765 |

Note that this is *not* a benchmark of spawning green tasks vs native tasks. I put in the native numbers just to get a ballpark of where green tasks are. This is benchmark is *clearly* benefiting from stack caching. Also, OSX is clearly not 5x faster than linux, I think my VM is just much slower.

All in all, this ended up being a nice 4x speedup for spawning a green task when you're using a cached stack.

```rust
extern mod extra;
extern mod native;
use std::rt::thread::Thread;

#[bench]
fn green(bh: &mut extra::test::BenchHarness) {
    let (p, c) = SharedChan::new();
    bh.iter(|| {
        let c = c.clone();
        spawn(proc() {
            c.send(());
        });
        p.recv();
    });
}

#[bench]
fn native(bh: &mut extra::test::BenchHarness) {
    let (p, c) = SharedChan::new();
    bh.iter(|| {
        let c = c.clone();
        native::task::spawn(proc() {
            c.send(());
        });
        p.recv();
    });
}

#[bench]
fn raw(bh: &mut extra::test::BenchHarness) {
    bh.iter(|| {
        Thread::start(proc() {}).join()
    });
}
```

Two unfortunate allocations were wrapping a proc() in a proc() with
GreenTask::build_start_wrapper, and then boxing this proc in a ~proc() inside of
Context::new(). Both of these allocations were a direct result from two
conditions:

1. The Context::new() function has a nice api of taking a procedure argument to
   start up a new context with. This inherently required an allocation by
   build_start_wrapper because extra code needed to be run around the edges of a
   user-provided proc() for a new task.

2. The initial bootstrap code only understood how to pass one argument to the
   next function. By modifying the assembly and entry points to understand more
   than one argument, more information is passed through in registers instead of
   allocating a pointer-sized context.

This is sadly where I end up throwing mips under a bus because I have no idea
what's going on in the mips context switching code and don't know how to modify
it.

Closes #7767
cc #11389

Instead, use an enum to allow running both a procedure and sending the task
result over a channel. I expect the common case to be sending on a channel (e.g.
task::try), so don't require an extra allocation in the common case.

cc #11389

One of these is allocated for every task, trying to cut down on allocations

cc #11389

The condition was the wrong direction and it also didn't take equality into
account. Tests were added for both cases.

For the small benchmark of `task::try(proc() {}).unwrap()`, this takes the
iteration time on OSX from 15119 ns/iter to 6179 ns/iter (timed with
RUST_THREADS=1)

cc #11389

#12057

The first setp for #9880 is to add a new `crate` keyword. This PR does exactly that. I took a chance to refactor `parse_item_foreign_mod` and I broke it down into 2 separate methods to isolate each feature.

The next step will be to push a new stage0 snapshot and then get rid of all `extern mod` around the code.

This passed `make check` locally, so hopefully it passes on bors!

List of PRs contained in this rollup:

Closes #12167 r=alexcrichton
Closes #12200 r=alexcrichton
Closes #12206 r=pcwalton
Closes #12209 r=huonw
Closes #12211 r=pcwalton
Closes #12217 r=brson
Closes #12218 r=alexcrichton
Closes #12220 r=alexcrichton
Closes #12222 r=kballard
Closes #12225 r=alexcrichton
Closes #12227 r=kballard
Closes #12237 r=alexcrichton
Closes #12240 r=kballard

If you were writing to something along the lines of `self.foo` then with the new
closure rules it meant that you were borrowing `self` for the entirety of the
closure, meaning that you couldn't format other fields of `self` at the same
time as writing to a buffer contained in `self`.

By lifting the borrow outside of the closure the borrow checker can better
understand that you're only borrowing one of the fields at a time. This had to
use type ascription as well in order to preserve trait object coercions.

Previously crates like `green` and `native` would still depend on their
parents when running `make check-stage2-green NO_REBUILD=1`, this
ensures that they only depend on their source files.

Also, apply NO_REBUILD to the crate doc tests, so, for example,
`check-stage2-doc-std` will use an already compiled `rustdoc` directly.

It asserted that the previous count was always nonnegative, but DISCONNECTED is
a valid value for it to see. In order to continue to remember to store
DISCONNECTED after DISCONNECTED was seen, I also added a helper method.

Closes #12226

The `id` shouldn't be changed by external code, and exposing it publicly
allows to be accidentally changed.

Also, remove the first element special case in the `select!` macro.

This documents in-source conditions using #[cfg(...)] and configurations
pre-defined by the compiler.

Fix #7962.

::num::bigint, Remove a source of O(n^2) running time in `fn shr_bits`.

I'll cut to the chase: On my laptop, this brings the running time on
`pidigits 2000` (from src/test/bench/shootout-pidigits.rs) from this:
```
% time ./pidigits 2000 > /dev/null

real	0m7.695s
user	0m7.690s
sys	0m0.005s
```
to this:
```
% time ./pidigits 2000 > /dev/null

real	0m0.322s
user	0m0.318s
sys	0m0.004s
```

The previous code was building up a vector by repeatedly making a
fresh copy for each element that was unshifted onto the front,
yielding quadratic running time.  This fixes that by building up the
vector in reverse order (pushing elements onto the end) and then
reversing it.

(Another option would be to build up a zero-initialized vector of the
desired length and then installing all of the shifted result elements
into their target index, but this was easier to hack up quickly, and
yields the desired asymptotic improvement.  I have been thinking of
adding a `vec::from_fn_rev` to handle this case, maybe I will try that
this weekend.)

Externally loaded libraries are able to do things that cause references
to them to survive past the expansion phase (e.g. creating @-box cycles,
launching a task or storing something in task local data). As such, the
library has to stay loaded for the lifetime of the process.

This patch gets rid of ObsoleteExternModAttributesInParens and
ObsoleteNamedExternModule since the replacement of `extern mod` with
`extern crate` avoids those cases and raises different errors. Both have
been around for at least a version which makes this a good moment to get
rid of them.