Ben Gamari authored Nov 21, 2014 and Herbert Valerio Riedel committed Nov 21, 2014

Due to changes in LLVM 3.5 aliases now may only refer to definitions.
Previously to handle symbols defined outside of the current commpilation
unit GHC would emit both an `external` declaration, as well as an alias
pointing to it, e.g.,

    @stg_BCO_info = external global i8
    @stg_BCO_info$alias = alias private i8* @stg_BCO_info

Where references to `stg_BCO_info` will use the alias
`stg_BCO_info$alias`. This is not permitted under the new alias
behavior, resulting in errors resembling,

    Alias must point to a definition
    i8* @"stg_BCO_info$alias"

To fix this, we invert the naming relationship between aliases and
definitions. That is, now the symbol definition takes the name
`@stg_BCO_info$def` and references use the actual name, `@stg_BCO_info`.
This means the external symbols can be handled by simply emitting an
`external` declaration,

    @stg_BCO_info = external global i8

Whereas in the case of a forward declaration we emit,

    @stg_BCO_info = alias private i8* @stg_BCO_info$def

Reviewed By: austin

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D155