[LD] Handle alias in nvptx-ld as nvptx's .alias does not handle it fully #32
Description
Some ".alias" support in nvptx-ld would be useful due to the limitations listed below – and complete lack before PTX ISA 6.3 (CUDA 10). Namely:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-March/592127.html states:
Starting with ptx isa version 6.3, a ptx directive .alias is available.
Use this directive to support symbol aliases, as far as possible. […]
The alias support has the following limitations.Only function aliases are supported.
Weak aliases are not supported. […]
Aliases to weak symbols are not supported […]
At some point we may add support in the nvptx-tools linker for symbol
aliases, and define f.i. malias=ptx and malias=ld to choose between the two in
the compiler.
[...]
An example of where this support is useful, is the OvO (OpenMP vs Offload) testsuite. The testsuite passes already at -O2. But at -O0, there are errors in some c++ test-cases due to missing symbol alias support.
Likewise sollve_vv's alpaka_complex_template.cpp testcase, which also fails with -O0.