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prevent unwinding past FFI boundaries in code generation #18510

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It's undefined to unwind past an FFI boundary such as a pub extern "C" fn. Code generation should automatically insert a landing pad doing an abort. This will eliminate the class of memory safety errors resulting from unwinding into C from Rust. LLVM will be able to optimize it out if it is being caught and handled explicitly, such as to translate into an error code for C.

EDIT: Mentoring instructions can be found here.

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    A-codegenArea: Code generationC-bugCategory: This is a bug.E-mentorCall for participation: This issue has a mentor. Use #t-compiler/help on Zulip for discussion.I-unsoundIssue: A soundness hole (worst kind of bug), see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundnessP-lowLow priorityT-compilerRelevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue.

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