Currently clang's medium code model treats all data as large, putting them in a large data section and using more expensive instruction sequences to access them.
Following gcc's -mlarge-data-threshold, which allows putting data under a certain size in a normal data section as opposed to a large data section. This allows using cheaper code sequences to access some portion of data in the binary (which will be implemented in LLVM in a future patch).
And under the medium codel mode, only put data above the large data threshold into large data sections, not all data.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D149288
And also set the SHF_X86_64_LARGE section flag.
gcc only uses the "l" prefix and SHF_X86_64_LARGE in the medium code model for data larger than -mlarge-data-threshold. But it seems more consistent to use it in the large code model as well in case separate parts of the binary aren't compiled with the large code model and also have a .data/.bss/.rodata section.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, tkoeppe
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D148836
