[ELF] --warn-backrefs: don't warn for linking sandwich problems
This is an alternative design to D77512. D45195 added --warn-backrefs to detect * A. certain input orders which GNU ld either errors ("undefined reference") or has different resolution semantics * B. (byproduct) some latent multiple definition problems (-ldef1 -lref -ldef2) which I call "linking sandwich problems". def2 may or may not be the same as def1. When an archive appears more than once (-ldef -lref -ldef), lld and GNU ld may have the same resolution but --warn-backrefs may warn. This is not uncommon. For example, currently lld itself has such a problem: ``` liblldCommon.a liblldCOFF.a ... liblldCommon.a _ZN3lld10DWARFCache13getDILineInfoEmm in liblldCOFF.a refers to liblldCommon.a(DWARF.cpp.o) libLLVMSupport.a also appears twice and has a similar warning ``` glibc has such problems. It is somewhat destined because of its separate libc/libpthread/... and arbitrary grouping. The situation is getting improved over time but I have seen: ``` -lc __isnanl references -lm -lc _IO_funlockfile references -lpthread ``` There are also various issues in interaction with other runtime libraries such as libgcc_eh and libunwind: ``` -lc __gcc_personality_v0 references -lgcc_eh -lpthread __gcc_personality_v0 references -lgcc_eh -lpthread _Unwind_GetCFA references -lunwind ``` These problems are actually benign. We want --warn-backrefs to focus on its main task A and defer task B (which is also useful) to a more specific future feature (see gold --detect-odr-violations and https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43110). Instead of warning immediately, we store the message and only report it if no subsequent lazy definition exists. The use of the static variable `backrefDiags` is similar to `undefs` in Relocations.cpp Reviewed By: grimar Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77522
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