The compiler-builtins crate compiles C code for WASM platforms since rust-lang/compiler-builtins#566. This works if the C compiler is Clang, as it passes the appropriate -target. However, in a GCC build environment this means that the cc crate will end up silently compiling code for the wrong architecture entirely. This means that, for example, the compiler-builtins shipping for wasm32-unknown-unknown via Rustup contains object files like the following:

45c91108d938afe8-cmpti2.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), with debug_info, not stripped

I suppose that the build for these needs to arrange for Clang to be present, or perhaps even specified explicitly in the target.*.{cc,cxx,linker} settings.

(Was redirected here from rust-lang/compiler-builtins#732.)