The current behavior of -lto-embed-bitcode is not quite the same as that
of -fembed-bitcode. While both populate .llvmbc with bitcode, the latter
populates it with pre-optimized bitcode(*), while the former with
post-optimized. The scenarios driving them are different - the latter's
goal is to allow re-compilation, while the former, IIUC, is execution.
I plan to add a third mode for thinlto cases, closely-related to
-fembed-bitcode's scenario: adding the bitcode pre-optimization, but
post-merging. This would allow re-compilation without requiring the
other .bc files that were merged (akin to how -fembed-bitcode allows
recompilation without all the .h files)
The third mode can't co-exist with the current -lto-embed-bitcode mode,
because the latter would overwrite it. For clarity, we change
-lto-embed-bitcode to be an enum.
(*) That's the compiler semantics. The driver splits compilation in 2
phases, so if -fembed-bitcode is given to the driver, the .llvmbc is
optimized bitcode; if the option is passed to the compiler (after -cc1),
the section is pre-optimized.