Add `--print=all-target-specs-json` unstable flag

[emilyalbini]

Proposal

This MCP proposes to add the unstable --print=all-target-specs-json compiler flag in addition to the existing unstable --print=target-spec-json flag. The flag will output to the standard output the JSON representation of all builtin target specs, emitting a (sorted) map with the target name as the key and the target spec as the value:

{
  "aarch64-apple-darwin": {
    "abi-return-struct-as-int": true,
    "arch": "aarch64",
    ...
  },
  "aarch64-apple-ios": {
    "abi-return-struct-as-int": true,
    "arch": "aarch64",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

This is needed by rust-lang/rust#108905, as it needs to know the details of all targets in order to validate compiletest directives like only-windows and ignore-x86_64. The alternative of invoking --print=target-list and then iterating each target with --print=target-spec-json takes around 5 seconds on my machine, which is not great.

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[rustbot]

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[Mark-Simulacrum]

@rustbot second

This is an unstable flag and we can remove it if we decide there's a better alternative. For now I think this makes sense to add.

[apiraino]

@rustbot label -final-comment-period +major-change-accepted