In particular, Collector was confusing to implementors. Several
thought that this compile-time class was the place to implement
their runtime GC heap. Of course, it doesn't even exist at runtime.
Specifically, the renames are:

  Collector               -> GCStrategy
  CollectorMetadata       -> GCFunctionInfo
  CollectorModuleMetadata -> GCModuleInfo
  CollectorRegistry       -> GCRegistry
  Function::getCollector  -> getGC (setGC, hasGC, clearGC)

Several accessors and nested types have also been renamed to be
consistent. These changes should be obvious.

llvm-svn: 54899

Factor GC metadata table assembly generation out of Collector in preparation for splitting AsmPrinter into its own library.

llvm-svn: 54881

names. This can save a lot of allocations if you aren't going to be
looking at the output.

llvm-svn: 54546

several things that were neither in an anonymous namespace nor static
but not intended to be global.

llvm-svn: 51017

llvm-svn: 50836

llvm-svn: 50775

the result IRBuilder.  Patch by Dominic Hamon.

llvm-svn: 49604

Specifically, introduction of XXX::Create methods
for Users that have a potentially variable number of
Uses.

llvm-svn: 49277

llvm-svn: 46320

llvm-svn: 45700

ShadowStackCollector, which additionally has reduced overhead with
no sacrifice in portability.

Considering a function @fun with 8 loop-local roots,
ShadowStackCollector introduces the following overhead
(x86):

; shadowstack prologue
        movl    L_llvm_gc_root_chain$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
        movl    (%eax), %ecx
        movl    $___gc_fun, 20(%esp)
        movl    $0, 24(%esp)
        movl    $0, 28(%esp)
        movl    $0, 32(%esp)
        movl    $0, 36(%esp)
        movl    $0, 40(%esp)
        movl    $0, 44(%esp)
        movl    $0, 48(%esp)
        movl    $0, 52(%esp)
        movl    %ecx, 16(%esp)
        leal    16(%esp), %ecx
        movl    %ecx, (%eax)

; shadowstack loop overhead
        (none)

; shadowstack epilogue
        movl    48(%esp), %edx
        movl    %edx, (%ecx)

; shadowstack metadata
        .align  3
___gc_fun:                              # __gc_fun
        .long   8
        .space  4

In comparison to LowerGC:

; lowergc prologue
        movl    L_llvm_gc_root_chain$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
        movl    (%eax), %ecx
        movl    %ecx, 48(%esp)
        movl    $8, 52(%esp)
        movl    $0, 60(%esp)
        movl    $0, 56(%esp)
        movl    $0, 68(%esp)
        movl    $0, 64(%esp)
        movl    $0, 76(%esp)
        movl    $0, 72(%esp)
        movl    $0, 84(%esp)
        movl    $0, 80(%esp)
        movl    $0, 92(%esp)
        movl    $0, 88(%esp)
        movl    $0, 100(%esp)
        movl    $0, 96(%esp)
        movl    $0, 108(%esp)
        movl    $0, 104(%esp)
        movl    $0, 116(%esp)
        movl    $0, 112(%esp)

; lowergc loop overhead
        leal    44(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 56(%esp)
        leal    40(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 64(%esp)
        leal    36(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 72(%esp)
        leal    32(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 80(%esp)
        leal    28(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 88(%esp)
        leal    24(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 96(%esp)
        leal    20(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 104(%esp)
        leal    16(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 112(%esp)

; lowergc epilogue
        movl    48(%esp), %edx
        movl    %edx, (%ecx)

; lowergc metadata
        (none)

llvm-svn: 45670