Implement function-sections for Haskell code, #8405

This adds a flag -split-sections that does similar things to
-split-objs, but using sections in single object files instead of
relying on the Satanic Splitter and other abominations. This is very
similar to the GCC flags -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections.

The --gc-sections linker flag, which allows unused sections to actually
be removed, is added to all link commands (if the linker supports it) so
that space savings from having base compiled with sections can be
realized.

Supported both in LLVM and the native code-gen, in theory for all
architectures, but really tested on x86 only.

In the GHC build, a new SplitSections variable enables -split-sections
for relevant parts of the build.

Test Plan: validate with both settings of SplitSections

Reviewers: dterei, Phyx, austin, simonmar, thomie, bgamari

Reviewed By: simonmar, thomie, bgamari

Subscribers: hsyl20, erikd, kgardas, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1242

GHC Trac Issues: #8405

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/main/HscMain.hs b/compiler/main/HscMain.hs
index 53c6f626e5..a6d263781c 100644
--- a/compiler/main/HscMain.hs
+++ b/compiler/main/HscMain.hs
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ doCodeGen hsc_env this_mod data_tycons
     -- we generate one SRT for the whole module.
     let
      pipeline_stream
-      | gopt Opt_SplitObjs dflags
+      | gopt Opt_SplitObjs dflags || gopt Opt_SplitSections dflags
         = {-# SCC "cmmPipeline" #-}
           let run_pipeline us cmmgroup = do
                 let (topSRT', us') = initUs us emptySRT