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Multiple metadata values for records such as opencl.ocl.version, llvm.ident
and similar are created after linking several modules. For some of them, notably
opencl.ocl.version, this creates semantic problem because we cannot tell which
version of OpenCL the composite module conforms.
Moreover, such repetitions of identical values often create a huge list of
unneeded metadata, which grows bitcode size both in memory and stored on disk.
It can go up to several Mb when linked against our OpenCL library. Lastly, such
long lists obscure reading of dumped IR.
The pass unifies metadata after linking.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25381
llvm-svn: 289092
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