At Onone, many types of functions (anything user written, compiler
generated setters and getters, etc), should be kept in the final
binary so they're accessible by the debugger.
rdar://126763340
In LLVM unified builds `%swift_obj_root` points to `<LLVM build dir>/tools/swift`,
and folders like `bin`, `lib` and `share` are not under `swift_obj_root`, which
makes some tests fail.
For the cases in which `%swift_obj_root/lib` was used, replace it by
using `%swift-lib-dir` instead. Replicate `%swift-lib-dir` to create
`%swift-bin-dir` and `%swift-share-dir`, and use those instead of
`%swift_obj_root/bin` and `%swift_obj_root/share`.
This alternates work both in Swift build-script builds and also in LLVM
unified builds.
A new LLVM IR affordance that allows expressing conditions under which globals
can be removed/dropped (even when marked with @llvm.used) is being discussed at:
- <https://reviews.llvm.org/D104496>
- <https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-September/152656.html>
This is a preliminary implementation that marks runtime lookup records (namely
protocol records, type descriptors records and protocol conformance records)
with the !llvm.used.conditional descriptors. That allows link-time / LTO-time
removal of these records (by GlobalDCE) based on whether they're actually used
within the linkage unit. Effectively, this allows libraries that have a limited
and known set of clients, to be optimized against the client at LTO time, and
significantly reduce the code size of that library.
Parts of the implementation:
- New -conditional-runtime-records frontend flag to enable using !llvm.used.conditional
- IRGen code that emits these records can now emit these either as a single contiguous
array (asContiguousArray = true, the old way), which is used for JIT mode, or
as indivial globals (asContiguousArray = false), which is necessary for the
!llvm.used.conditional stripping to work.
- When records are emitted as individual globals, they have new names of
"\01l_protocol_" + mangled name of the protocol descriptor, and similarly for
other records.
- Fixed existing tests to account for individual records instead of a single array
- Added an IR level test, and an end-to-end execution test to demonstrate that
the !llvm.used.conditional-based stripping actually works.
