[MLIR][LLVMIR] Add support for empty global ctor/dtor lists (#128969)
LLVM IR emitted in from C++ may contain `@llvm.global_ctors = appending
global [0 x { i32, ptr, ptr }] zeroinitializer`. Before this PR, if we
try to roundtrip code like this from the importer, we'll end up with
nothing in place.
Note that `llvm::appendToGlobalCtors` ignores empty lists and this PR
uses the same approach as `llvm-as`, which doesn't use the utilities
from `llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/ModuleUtils.cpp` in order to build this
- it calls into creating a global variable from scratch.
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