Problem

-Zchecksum-hash-algorithm writes magic comments to dep-info files to info build tool like Cargo about source file checksum and file length

# checksum:{checksum_hash} file_len:{file_len} {path}

However, the above code uses SourceFile.source_len from SourceMap that the length of the file is normalized length (BOM-removed, newline normalized). That makes external tools harder to verify the checksum, as they need to follow all the normalizations rustc did to compute exact the same checksum

Possible solution

Instead of using normalized file length, SourceFile should keep the original file length, and serialize it to dep-info file correctly.

Meta

rustc 1.93.0-nightly (bd3ac0330 2025-11-01)

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Cargo issue: rust-lang/cargo#16253