[ObjCARC] Add an new attribute, objc_externally_retained
This attribute, called "objc_externally_retained", exposes clang's notion of pseudo-__strong variables in ARC. Pseudo-strong variables "borrow" their initializer, meaning that they don't retain/release it, instead assuming that someone else is keeping their value alive. If a function is annotated with this attribute, implicitly strong parameters of that function aren't implicitly retained/released in the function body, and are implicitly const. This is useful to expose for performance reasons, most functions don't need the extra safety of the retain/release, so programmers can opt out as needed. This attribute can also apply to declarations of local variables, with similar effect. Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55865 llvm-svn: 350422
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