[AsmPrinter] Emit .weak directive for weak linkage on COFF for symbols without a comdat
MC already knows how to emulate the .weak directive (with its ELF semantics; i.e., an undefined weak symbol resolves to 0, and a defined weak symbol has lower link precedence than a strong symbol of the same name) using COFF weak externals. Plumb this through the ASM printer too, so that definitions marked with __attribute__((weak)) at the language level (which gets translated to weak linkage at the IR level) have the corresponding .weak directive emitted. Note that declarations marked with __attribute__((weak)) at the language level (which translates to extern_weak at the IR level) already have .weak directives emitted. Weak*/linkonce* symbols without an associated comdat (in particular, ones generated with __attribute__((weak)) in C/C++) were earlier emitted as normal unique globals, as the comdat is required to provide the linkonce semantics. This change makes sure they are emitted as .weak instead, allowing other symbols to override them. Rename the existing coff-weak.ll test to coff-linkonce.ll. I'm not quite sure what that test covers, since the behavior being tested in it (the emission of a one_only section) is just a result of passing -function-sections to llc; the linkonce_odr makes no difference. Add a new coff-weak.ll which tests the new directive emission. Based on an previous patch by Shoaib Meenai. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44543
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