[asan] when creating string constants, set unnamed_attr and align 1 so that equal strings are merged by the linker. Observed up to 1% binary size reduction. Thanks to Anton Korobeynikov for the suggestion
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@177264 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
diff --git a/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/AddressSanitizer.cpp b/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/AddressSanitizer.cpp
index 614dc21..92b42ee 100644
--- a/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/AddressSanitizer.cpp
+++ b/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/AddressSanitizer.cpp
@@ -531,9 +531,12 @@
// Create a constant for Str so that we can pass it to the run-time lib.
static GlobalVariable *createPrivateGlobalForString(Module &M, StringRef Str) {
Constant *StrConst = ConstantDataArray::getString(M.getContext(), Str);
- return new GlobalVariable(M, StrConst->getType(), true,
+ GlobalVariable *GV = new GlobalVariable(M, StrConst->getType(), true,
GlobalValue::PrivateLinkage, StrConst,
kAsanGenPrefix);
+ GV->setUnnamedAddr(true); // Ok to merge these.
+ GV->setAlignment(1); // Strings may not be merged w/o setting align 1.
+ return GV;
}
static bool GlobalWasGeneratedByAsan(GlobalVariable *G) {