If we can use comdats, then we can make it so that the global metadata
is thrown away if the prevailing definition of the global was
uninstrumented. I have only tested this on COFF targets, but in theory,
there is no reason that we cannot also do this for ELF.
This will allow us to re-enable string merging with ASan on Windows,
reducing the binary size cost of ASan on Windows.
I tested this change with ASan+PGO, and I fixed an issue with the
__llvm_profile_raw_version symbol. With the old version of my patch, we
would attempt to instrument that symbol on ELF because it had a comdat
with external linkage. If we had been using the linker GC-friendly
metadata scheme, everything would have worked, but clang does not enable
it by default.
llvm-svn: 340232
Reid Kleckner