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[InstrProfiling] Make CountersPtr in __profd_ relative

Change `CountersPtr` in `__profd_` to a label difference, which is a link-time
constant. On ELF, when linking a shared object, this requires that `__profc_` is
either private or linkonce/linkonce_odr hidden. On COFF, we need D104564 so that
`.quad a-b` (64-bit label difference) can lower to a 32-bit PC-relative relocation.

```
# ELF: R_X86_64_PC64 (PC-relative)
.quad .L__profc_foo-.L__profd_foo

# Mach-O: a pair of 8-byte X86_64_RELOC_UNSIGNED and X86_64_RELOC_SUBTRACTOR
.quad l___profc_foo-l___profd_foo

# COFF: we actually use IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32/IMAGE_REL_ARM64_REL32 so
# the high 32-bit value is zero even if .L__profc_foo < .L__profd_foo
# As compensation, we truncate CountersDelta in the header so that
# __llvm_profile_merge_from_buffer and llvm-profdata reader keep working.
.quad .L__profc_foo-.L__profd_foo
```

(Note: link.exe sorts `.lprfc` before `.lprfd` even if the object writer
has `.lprfd` before `.lprfc`, so we cannot work around by reordering
`.lprfc` and `.lprfd`.)

With this change, a stage 2 (`-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86 -DLLVM_BUILD_INSTRUMENTED=IR`)
`ld -pie` linked clang is 1.74% smaller due to fewer R_X86_64_RELATIVE relocations.
```
% readelf -r pie | awk '$3~/R.*/{s[$3]++} END {for (k in s) print k, s[k]}'
R_X86_64_JUMP_SLO 331
R_X86_64_TPOFF64 2
R_X86_64_RELATIVE 476059  # was: 607712
R_X86_64_64 2616
R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT 31
```

The absolute function address (used by llvm-profdata to collect indirect call
targets) can be converted to relative as well, but is not done in this patch.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104556
parent 69cdaddd
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