Avoid emitting a linker options section in the compiler if it is empty. (#139821)

Recently in some of our internal testing, we noticed that the compiler
was sometimes generating an empty linker.options section which seems
unnecessary. This proposed change causes the compiler to simply omit
emitting the linker.options section if it is empty.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
index 039507b..6d2c705 100644
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
@@ -3275,9 +3275,11 @@ void CodeGenModule::EmitModuleLinkOptions() {
   LinkerOptionsMetadata.append(MetadataArgs.begin(), MetadataArgs.end());
 
   // Add the linker options metadata flag.
-  auto *NMD = getModule().getOrInsertNamedMetadata("llvm.linker.options");
-  for (auto *MD : LinkerOptionsMetadata)
-    NMD->addOperand(MD);
+  if (!LinkerOptionsMetadata.empty()) {
+    auto *NMD = getModule().getOrInsertNamedMetadata("llvm.linker.options");
+    for (auto *MD : LinkerOptionsMetadata)
+      NMD->addOperand(MD);
+  }
 }
 
 void CodeGenModule::EmitDeferred() {