Close https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/71034
See
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-c-20-modules-introduce-thin-bmi-and-decls-hash/74755
This patch introduces reduced BMI, which doesn't contain the definitions
of functions and variables if its definitions won't contribute to the
ABI.
Testing is a big part of the patch. We want to make sure the reduced BMI
contains the same behavior with the existing and relatively stable
fatBMI. This is pretty helpful for further reduction.
The user interfaces part it left to following patches to ease the
reviewing.
Currently, the use of preferred_name would block implementing std
modules in libcxx. See https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/56490
for example.
The problem is pretty hard and it looks like we couldn't solve it in a
short time. So we sent this patch as a workaround to avoid blocking us
to modularize STL. This is intended to be fixed properly in the future.
Reviewed By: erichkeane, aaron.ballman, tahonermann
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130331
