GCC 7 introduced -fprofile-update={atomic,prefer-atomic} (prefer-atomic is for
best efforts (some targets do not support atomics)) to increment counters
atomically, which is exactly what we have done with -fprofile-instr-generate
(D50867) and -fprofile-arcs (b5ef137c11).
This patch adds the option to clang to surface the internal options at driver level.
GCC 7 also turned on -fprofile-update=prefer-atomic when -pthread is specified,
but it has performance regression
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89307). So we don't follow suit.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87737
gcov is an "Edge Profiling with Edge Counters" application according to
Optimally Profiling and Tracing Programs (1994).
The minimum number of counters necessary is |E|-(|V|-1). The unmeasured edges
form a spanning tree. Both GCC --coverage and clang -fprofile-generate leverage
this optimization. This patch implements the optimization for clang --coverage.
The produced .gcda files are much smaller now.
Fangrui Song