[asan] when creating string constants, set unnamed_attr and align 1 so that equal strings are merged by the linker. Observed up to 1% binary size reduction. Thanks to Anton Korobeynikov for the suggestion

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@177264 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Kostya Serebryany
2013-03-18 09:38:39 +00:00
parent 5e8da1773c
commit 5111627ac1
2 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
@@ -531,9 +531,12 @@ static size_t TypeSizeToSizeIndex(uint32_t TypeSize) {
// Create a constant for Str so that we can pass it to the run-time lib.
static GlobalVariable *createPrivateGlobalForString(Module &M, StringRef Str) {
Constant *StrConst = ConstantDataArray::getString(M.getContext(), Str);
return new GlobalVariable(M, StrConst->getType(), true,
GlobalVariable *GV = new GlobalVariable(M, StrConst->getType(), true,
GlobalValue::PrivateLinkage, StrConst,
kAsanGenPrefix);
GV->setUnnamedAddr(true); // Ok to merge these.
GV->setAlignment(1); // Strings may not be merged w/o setting align 1.
return GV;
}
static bool GlobalWasGeneratedByAsan(GlobalVariable *G) {