[LinkerWrapper] Pass all files to the device linker (#97573) Summary: The linker wrapper's job is to extract embedded device code from fat binaries and create linked images that can then be embedded and executed. In order to support LTO, we originally reinvented all of the LTO handling that `ld.lld` normally does. Primarily, this was because `nvlink` didn't support this at all, and we have special hacks required for offloading languages interacting with archive libraries. Now since I wrote https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/96561 we should be able to pass all the inputs to the device linker transparently. This has the advantage of allowing the `clang` Driver to do its own handling. Primarily, this will be used to implicitly pass libraries to the device link job to make it more consistent with other toolchains. The JIT support is a notable departure, however there is an option called `--lto-emit-llvm` that performs the exact function where we want the final link job to output LLVM-IR that we can then embed instead. This patch does not fully delete the LTO handling, primarily because I think the SPIR-V people might want it. To see only the relevant patches, ignore the first commit of the nvlink-wrapper. Depends on https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/96561.
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