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Teresa Johnson 3a2a2bb628 [LTO] Support for embedding bitcode section during LTO
Summary:
This adds support for embedding bitcode in a binary during LTO. The libLTO gains supports the `-lto-embed-bitcode` flag. The option allows users of the LTO library to embed a bitcode section. For example, LLD can pass the option via `ld.lld -mllvm=-lto-embed-bitcode`.

This feature allows doing something comparable to `clang -c -fembed-bitcode`, but on the (LTO) linker level. Having bitcode alongside native code has many use-cases. To give an example, the MacOS linker can create a `-bitcode_bundle` section containing bitcode. Also, having this feature built into LLVM is an alternative to 3rd party tools such as [[ https://github.com/travitch/whole-program-llvm | wllvm ]] or [[ https://github.com/SRI-CSL/gllvm | gllvm ]]. As with these tools, this feature simplifies creating "whole-program" llvm bitcode files, but in contrast to wllvm/gllvm it does not rely on a specific llvm frontend/driver.

Patch by Josef Eisl <josef.eisl@oracle.com>

Reviewers: #llvm, #clang, rsmith, pcc, alexshap, tejohnson

Reviewed By: tejohnson

Subscribers: tejohnson, mehdi_amini, inglorion, hiraditya, aheejin, steven_wu, dexonsmith, dang, cfe-commits, llvm-commits, #llvm, #clang

Tags: #clang, #llvm

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68213
2019-12-12 12:34:19 -08:00
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BitcodeAnalyzer.h Reland: [Remarks] Add an LLVM-bitstream-based remark serializer 2019-07-31 00:13:51 +00:00
BitcodeReader.h [Bitcode] Move Bitstream to a separate library 2019-07-03 22:40:07 +00:00
BitcodeWriter.h [LTO] Support for embedding bitcode section during LTO 2019-12-12 12:34:19 -08:00
BitcodeWriterPass.h Update the file headers across all of the LLVM projects in the monorepo 2019-01-19 08:50:56 +00:00
LLVMBitCodes.h [IR] Redefine Freeze instruction 2019-11-12 10:49:00 +09:00