[ELF] Special case --shuffle-sections=-1 to reverse input sections

If the number of sections changes, which is common for re-links after
incremental updates, the section order may change drastically.

Special case -1 to reverse input sections. This is a stable transform.
The section order is more resilient to incremental updates.  Usually the
code issue (e.g. Static Initialization Order Fiasco, assuming pointer
comparison result of two unrelated objects) is due to the relative order
between two problematic input files A and B.  Checking the regular order
and the reversed order is sufficient.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98445

GitOrigin-RevId: 423cb321dfae8a57f878974ce81730d5ee612f95
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  1. cmake/
  2. COFF/
  3. Common/
  4. docs/
  5. ELF/
  6. include/
  7. lib/
  8. MachO/
  9. MinGW/
  10. test/
  11. tools/
  12. unittests/
  13. utils/
  14. wasm/
  15. .clang-format
  16. .clang-tidy
  17. .gitignore
  18. CMakeLists.txt
  19. CODE_OWNERS.TXT
  20. LICENSE.TXT
  21. README.md
README.md

LLVM Linker (lld)

This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.

lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.

Benchmarking

In order to make sure various developers can evaluate patches over the same tests, we create a collection of self contained programs.

It is hosted at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz

The current sha256 is 10eec685463d5a8bbf08d77f4ca96282161d396c65bd97dc99dbde644a31610f.