Saleem Abdulrasool 0c42b57962 ELF: restructure image metadata registration ...

Restructure the ELF handling to be completely agnostic to the OS.
Rather than usng the loader to query the section information, use the
linker to construct linker tables and synthetic markers for the
beginning and of the table.  Save off the values of these pointers and
pass them along through the constructor to the runtime for registration.

This removes the need for the begin/end objects.  Remove the special
construction of the begin/end objects through the special assembly
constructs, preferring to do this in C with a bit of inline assembly to
ensure that the section is always allocated.

Remove the special handling for the various targets, the empty object
file can be linked on all the targets.

The new object file has no requirements on the ordering.  It needs to
simply be injected into the link.

Name the replacement file `swiftrt.o` mirroring `crt.o` from libc.  Merge
the constructor and the definition into a single object file.

This approach is generally more portable, overall simpler to implement,
and more robust.

Thanks to Orlando Bassotto for help analyzing some of the odd behaviours
when switching over.

2017-11-28 10:04:04 -08:00

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