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Rollup merge of rust-lang#137685 - lqd:nostart-stop-gc, r=petrochenkov
self-contained linker: conservatively default to `-znostart-stop-gc` on x64 linux
To help stabilization, this PR disables an LLD optimization on x64 linux with respect to `--gc-sections` and encapsulation symbols: it will reduce the number of crates needing to opt-out of lld due to this bfd / lld difference. For example, all the people using [linkme](https://github.com/dtolnay/linkme), which [doesn't work with lld](dtolnay/linkme#63) or on nightly, need to disable lld.
More information about all this, and the historical differences, can be found in:
- https://maskray.me/blog/2021-01-31-metadata-sections-comdat-and-shf-link-order
- https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/start-stop-gc
This optimization has [no visible impact](rust-lang#137685 (comment)) on our benchmarks, so we can use it by default and have a safer/more conservative starting point to remove friction during migration. We can them emit an FCW for the cases where lld detects reliance on encapsulation symbols without `-znostart-stop-gc`, and then revert back to lld's default after a while. No one compiling on nightly relies on this difference, obviously, so doing an FCW is not necessary until after lld is used on stable.
I've tested that this correctly links on `linkme` examples. I've also quickly tried to crate an rmake test but the setup with encapsulation symbols is annoying to reproduce: a few link section/name attributes is not enough, we also need to collect symbols between the encapsulation symbols, without referencing them in code, for `-znostart-stop-gc` to only impact this... It should of course be doable though, maybe ````@Kobzol```` will look into it if they have time.
r? ````@petrochenkov````
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