Commit 72315d02 authored by Richard Smith's avatar Richard Smith
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Treat `std::move`, `forward`, etc. as builtins.

This is extended to all `std::` functions that take a reference to a
value and return a reference (or pointer) to that same value: `move`,
`forward`, `move_if_noexcept`, `as_const`, `addressof`, and the
libstdc++-specific function `__addressof`.

We still require these functions to be declared before they can be used,
but don't instantiate their definitions unless their addresses are
taken. Instead, code generation, constant evaluation, and static
analysis are given direct knowledge of their effect.

This change aims to reduce various costs associated with these functions
-- per-instantiation memory costs, compile time and memory costs due to
creating out-of-line copies and inlining them, code size at -O0, and so
on -- so that they are not substantially more expensive than a cast.
Most of these improvements are very small, but I measured a 3% decrease
in -O0 object file size for a simple C++ source file using the standard
library after this change.

We now a...
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