Let Clang emit `dead_on_return` attribute on pointer arguments
that are passed indirectly, namely, large aggregates that the
ABI mandates be passed by value; thus, the parameter is destroyed
within the callee. Writes to such arguments are not observable by
the caller after the callee returns.
This should desirably enable further MemCpyOpt/DSE optimizations.
Previous discussion: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-dead-on-return-attribute/86871.
The aim here is to avoid a ptrtoint->inttoptr round-trip through the function
argument whilst keeping the calling convention the same. Given a struct which
is <= 128bits in size, which can only contain either 1 or 2 pointers, we
convert to a ptr or [2 x ptr] as opposed to the old coercion that uses i64 or
[2 x i64]. This helps alias analysis produce more accurate results.
The qualifier allows programmer to directly control how pointers are
signed when they are stored in a particular variable.
The qualifier takes three arguments: the signing key, a flag specifying
whether address discrimination should be used, and a non-negative
integer that is used for additional discrimination.
```
typedef void (*my_callback)(const void*);
my_callback __ptrauth(ptrauth_key_process_dependent_code, 1, 0xe27a) callback;
```
Co-Authored-By: John McCall rjmccall@apple.com
