Add !associated metadata.
This is an ELF-specific thing that adds SHF_LINK_ORDER to the global's section pointing to the metadata argument's section. The effect of that is a reverse dependency between sections for the linker GC. !associated does not change the behavior of global-dce. The global may also need to be added to llvm.compiler.used. Since SHF_LINK_ORDER is per-section, !associated effectively enables fdata-sections for the affected globals, the same as comdats do. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29104 llvm-svn: 298157
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