remove -znostart-stop-gc workaround

Now that `#[used(linker)]` is the default on ELF, we don't need to use the
`-znostart-stop-gc` link-arg workaround to match bfd's behavior when
using lld.

Author: lqd

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs

@@ -3346,35 +3346,6 @@ fn add_lld_args(
     // this, `wasm-component-ld`, which is overridden if this option is passed.
     if !sess.target.is_like_wasm {
         cmd.cc_arg("-fuse-ld=lld");
-
-        // On ELF platforms like at least x64 linux, GNU ld and LLD have opposite defaults on some
-        // section garbage-collection features. For example, the somewhat popular `linkme` crate and
-        // its dependents rely in practice on this difference: when using lld, they need `-z
-        // nostart-stop-gc` to prevent encapsulation symbols and sections from being
-        // garbage-collected.
-        //
-        // More information about all this can be found in:
-        // - https://maskray.me/blog/2021-01-31-metadata-sections-comdat-and-shf-link-order
-        // - https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/start-stop-gc
-        //
-        // So when using lld, we restore, for now, the traditional behavior to help migration, but
-        // will remove it in the future.
-        // Since this only disables an optimization, it shouldn't create issues, but is in theory
-        // slightly suboptimal. However, it:
-        // - doesn't have any visible impact on our benchmarks
-        // - reduces the need to disable lld for the crates that depend on this
-        //
-        // Note that lld can detect some cases where this difference is relied on, and emits a
-        // dedicated error to add this link arg. We could make use of this error to emit an FCW. As
-        // of writing this, we don't do it, because lld is already enabled by default on nightly
-        // without this mitigation: no working project would see the FCW, so we do this to help
-        // stabilization.
-        //
-        // FIXME: emit an FCW if linking fails due its absence, and then remove this link-arg in the
-        // future.
-        if sess.target.llvm_target == "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" {
-            cmd.link_arg("-znostart-stop-gc");
-        }
     }
 
     if !flavor.is_gnu() {