cargo-show-asm

A cargo subcommand that displays the Assembly, LLVM-IR, MIR and WASM generated for Rust source code.

Install

console $ cargo install cargo-show-asm

Features

Usage:

```console Show the code rustc generates for any function

Usage: [-p SPEC] [--lib | --test TEST | --bench BENCH | --example EXAMPLE | --bin BIN] [--release | --dev | --profile PROFILE] [--target TRIPLE] -C FLAG... -Z FLAG... [--native | --target-cpu CPU] [--rust] [--simplify] -M ARG... [--intel | --att | --llvm | --llvm-input | --mir | --wasm | --mca-intel | --mca-att] [--everything | | []]

Usage: 1. Focus on a single assembly producing target: % cargo asm -p isin --lib # here we are targeting lib in isin crate 2. Narrow down a function: % cargo asm -p isin --lib from_ # here "from" is part of the function you are interested intel 3. Get the full results: % cargo asm -p isin --lib isin::base36::fromalphanum

Available positional items: Dump name with this index Dump function with that specific name / filter functions containing this string Select specific function when there's several with the same name

Available options: -p, --package Package to use, defaults to a current one, required for workspace projects, can also point to a dependency --lib Show results from library code --test Show results from an integration test --bench Show results from a benchmark --example Show results from an example --bin Show results from a binary --manifest-path Path to Cargo.toml, defaults to one in current folder --target-dir

[env:CARGOTARGETDIR: N/A] Use custom target directory for generated artifacts, create if missing --dry Produce a build plan instead of actually building --frozen Requires Cargo.lock and cache are up to date --locked Requires Cargo.lock is up to date --offline Run without accessing the network --no-default-features Do not activate default feature --all-features Activate all available features --features A feature to activate, can be used multiple times --release Compile in release mode (default) --dev Compile in dev mode --profile Build for this specific profile --target Build for the target triple -C Codegen flags to rustc, see 'rustc -C help' for details -Z Unstable (nightly-only) flags to Cargo, see 'cargo -Z help' for details --native Optimize for the CPU running the compiler --target-cpu Optimize code for a specific CPU, see 'rustc --print target-cpus' --rust Print interleaved Rust code --color Enable color highlighting --no-color Disable color highlighting --full-name Include full demangled name instead of just prefix --keep-labels Keep all the original labels -v, --verbose more verbose output, can be specified multiple times --simplify Try to strip some of the non-assembly instruction information -M, --mca-arg Pass parameter to llvm-mca for mca targets --intel Show assembly using Intel style --att Show assembly using AT&T style --llvm Show llvm-ir --llvm-input Show llvm-ir before any LLVM passes --mir Show MIR --wasm Show WASM, needs wasm32-unknown-unknown target installed --mca-intel Show llvm-mca analysis, Intel style asm --mca-att Show llvm-mca analysis, AT&T style asm --everything Dump the whole asm file -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information ```

You can start by running cargo asm with no parameters - it will suggests how to narrow the search scope - for workspace crates you need to specify a crate to work with, for crates defining several targets (lib, binaries, examples) you need to specify exactly which target to use. In a workspace cargo asm lists only workspace members as suggestions but any crate from workspace tree is available.

Once cargo asm focuses on a single target it will run rustc producing assembly file and will try to list of available public functions:

```console,ignore $ cargo asm --lib Try one of those "<&T as core::fmt::Display>::fmt" [17, 12, 12, 12, 12, 19, 19, 12] "<&mut W as core::fmt::Write>::writechar" [20] "<&mut W as core::fmt::Write>::writefmt" [38] "<&mut W as core::fmt::Write>::write_str" [90] ">::parse" [263]

...

```

Name in quotes is demangled rust name, numbers in square brackets represent number of lines in asm file. Function with the same name can be present in several instances.

Specifying exact function name or a uniquely identifying part of it will print its assembly code

console,ignore $ cargo asm --lib "cargo_show_asm::opts::focus::{{closure}}" To pick between different alternatives you can either specify the index

console,ignore $ cargo asm --lib "cargo_show_asm::opts::focus::{{closure}}" 2 Or start using full names with hex included:

```console,ignore $ cargo asm --lib --full-name

...

$ cargo asm --lib "once_cell::imp::OnceCell::initialize::h9c5c7d5bd745000b" ```

cargo-show-asm comes with a built in search function. Just pass partial name instead of a full one and only matching functions will be listed

console $ cargo asm --lib Debug

My function isn't there!

rustc will only generate the code for your function if it knows what type it is, including generic parameters and if it is exported (in case of a library) and not inlined (in case of a binary, example, test, etc). If your function takes a generic parameter - try making a monomorphic wrapper around it and make it pub and #[inline(never)].

What about cargo-asm?

cargo-asm is not maintained: https://github.com/gnzlbg/cargo-asm/issues/244. This crate is a reimplementation which addresses a number of its shortcomings, including:

  • cargo-asm recompiles everything every time with 1 codegen unit, which is slow and also not necessarily what is in your release profile. cargo-show-asm avoids that.

  • Because of how cargo-asm handles demangling the output looks like asm but isn't actually asm. It contains a whole bunch of extra commas which makes reusing it more annoying.

  • cargo-asm always uses colors unless you pass a flag while cargo-show-asm changes its default behavior if output is not sent to a terminal.

  • cargo-show-asm also supports MIR (note that the formatting of human-readable MIR is not stable).

Shell completion

cargo-asm comes with shell completion generated by bpaf, use one of the lines below and place it into the place right for your shell.

console $ cargo-asm --bpaf-complete-style-bash $ cargo-asm --bpaf-complete-style-zsh $ cargo-asm --bpaf-complete-style-fish $ cargo-asm --bpaf-complete-style-elvish

You'll need to use it as cargo-asm command rather than cargo asm to take advantage of it.

Colorful line parser output

You can install cargo-show-asm with one of two features to get prettier command line console cargo install cargo-show-asm -F bright-color cargo install cargo-show-asm -F dull-color

License

This project is licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.