Add branch weights to branches for static initializers.
The initializer for a static local variable cannot be hot, because it runs at most once per program. That's not quite the same thing as having a low branch probability, but under the assumption that the function is invoked many times, modeling this as a branch probability seems reasonable. For TLS variables, the situation is less clear, since the initialization side of the branch can run multiple times in a program execution, but we still expect initialization to be rare relative to non-initialization uses. It would seem worthwhile to add a PGO counter along this path to make this estimation more accurate in future. For globals with guarded initialization, we don't yet apply any branch weights. Due to our use of COMDATs, the guard will be reached exactly once per DSO, but we have no idea how many DSOs will define the variable. llvm-svn: 309195
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