Implement function-sections for Haskell code, #8405wip/D1242

Summary:
This adds a flag -split-sections that does similar things to -split-objs, but
using sections in single object files instead of relying on the Satanic
Splitter and other abominations. This is very similar to the GCC flags
-ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections.

The --gc-sections linker flag, which allows unused sections to actually
be removed, is added to all link commands (if the linker supports it) so that
space savings from having base compiled with sections can be realized.

Supported both in LLVM and the native code-gen, in theory for all
architectures, but really tested on x86 only.

In the GHC build, a new SplitSections variable enables -split-sections for
relevant parts of the build.

Test Plan: validate with both settings of SplitSections

Reviewers: simonmar, austin, dterei, bgamari

Subscribers: erikd, kgardas, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1242

GHC Trac Issues: #8405

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/main/SysTools.hs b/compiler/main/SysTools.hs
index b624862191..9f9348aecc 100644
--- a/compiler/main/SysTools.hs
+++ b/compiler/main/SysTools.hs
@@ -796,6 +796,7 @@ getLinkerInfo' dflags = do
           -- GNU ld specifically needs to use less memory. This especially
           -- hurts on small object files. Trac #5240.
           -- Set DT_NEEDED for all shared libraries. Trac #10110.
+          -- TODO: Investigate if these help or hurt when using split sections.
           return (GnuLD $ map Option ["-Wl,--hash-size=31",
                                       "-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads",
                                       -- ELF specific flag