[ObjCDirectPreconditionThunk] Setup helper functions (#170617) ## TL;DR This is a stack of PRs implementing features to expose direct methods ABI. You can see the RFC, design, and discussion [here](https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-optimizing-code-size-of-objc-direct-by-exposing-function-symbols-and-moving-nil-checks-to-thunks/88866). https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/170616 Flag `-fobjc-direct-precondition-thunk` set up https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/170617 **Code refactoring to ease later reviews** https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/170618 Thunk generation https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/170619 Optimizations, some class objects can be known to be realized ## Implementation details 1. `GenerateDirectMethodsPreconditionCheck`: Move some functionalities to a separate functions. Those functions will be reused if we move precondition checks into a thunk 2. `GenerateClassRealization` separates the class realization `[self self]` logic into a new function. It comes handy later when we need to sometimes inline class realization (for va arg functions) 3. Create `DirectMethodInfo`, a two pointer struct that manage true implementation and its thunk. When `ObjCDirectPreconditionThunk` is not used, only true implementation is valid pointing to the LLVM IR Function. ## Tests None, existing ones shouldn't break
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