[ThinLTO] Enable importing of aliases as copy of aliasee
Summary:
This implements a missing feature to allow importing of aliases, which
was previously disabled because alias cannot be available_externally.
We instead import an alias as a copy of its aliasee.
Some additional work was required in the IndexBitcodeWriter for the
distributed build case, to ensure that the aliasee has a value id
in the distributed index file (i.e. even when it is not being
imported directly).
This is a performance win in codes that have many aliases, e.g. C++
applications that have many constructor and destructor aliases.
Reviewers: pcc
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, inglorion, eraman, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40747
llvm-svn: 320895
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