`__cfstring` has embedded addends that foil ICF's hashing / equality
checks. (We can ignore embedded addends when doing ICF because the same
information gets recorded in our Reloc structs.) Therefore, in order to
properly dedup CFStrings, we create a mutable copy of the CFString and
zero out the embedded addends before performing any hashing / equality
checks.
(We did in fact have a partial implementation of CFString deduplication
already. However, it only worked when the cstrings they point to are at
identical offsets in their object files.)
I anticipate this approach can be extended to other similar
statically-allocated struct sections in the future.
In addition, we previously treated all references with differing addends
as unequal. This is not true when the references are to literals:
different addends may point to the same literal in the output binary. In
particular, `__cfstring` has such references to `__cstring`. I've
adjusted ICF's `equalsConstant` logic accordingly, and I've added a few
more tests to make sure the addend-comparison code path is adequately
covered.
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/51281.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Roger
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120137
`__cfstring` is a special literal section, so instead of breaking it up
at symbol boundaries, we break it up at fixed-width boundaries (since
each literal is the same size). Symbols can only occur at one of those
boundaries, so this is strictly more powerful than
`.subsections_via_symbols`.
With that in place, we then run the section through ICF.
This change is about perf-neutral when linking chromium_framework.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105045
Jez Ng