Summary:
We currently have an unnecessary level of indirection when initializing
the RPC client. This is a holdover from when the RPC client was not
trivially copyable and simply makes it more complicated. Here we use the
`asm` syntax to give the C++ variable a valid name so that we can just
copy to it directly.
Another advantage to this, is that if users want to piggy-back on the
same RPC interface they need only declare theirs as extern with the same
symbol name, or make it weak to optionally use it if LIBC isn't
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Summary:
Part of the work done in the `libc` project is to provide host services
for things like `printf` or `malloc`, or generally any syscall-like
behaviour. This scheme works by emitting an externally visible global
called `__llvm_libc_rpc_client` that the host runtime can pick up to get
a handle to the global memory associated with the client. We use the
presence of this symbol to indicate whether or not we need to run an RPC
server. Normally, this symbol is only present if something requiring an
RPC server was linked in, such as `printf`. However, if this call to
`printf` was subsequently optimizated out, the symbol would remain and
cannot be removed (rightfully so) because of its linkage. This patch
adds a special-case optimization to remove this symbol so we can
indicate that an RPC server is no longer needed.
This patch puts this logic in `OpenMPOpt` as the most readily available
place for it. In the future, we should think how to move this somewhere
more generic. Furthermore, we use a hard-coded runtime name (which isn't
uncommon given all the other magic symbol names). But it might be nice
to abstract that part away.
