illumos' `ld` does not support a flag like either SHF_GNU_RETAIN or
SHF_SUNW_NODISCARD, so there is no way to communicate `#[used(linker)]`
for that target. Setting `USED_LINKER` to try results in LLVM setting
SHF_SUNW_NODISCARD for Solaris-like targets, which is an unknown section
header flag for illumos `ld` and prevents sections from being merged
that otherwise would.
As a motivating example, the `inventory` crate produces
`#[used]` items to merge into `.init_array`. Because those items have an
unknown section header flag they are not merged with the default
`.init_array` with `frame_dummy`, and end up never executed.
Downgrading `#[used]` to `#[used(compiler)]` on illumos keeps
so-attributed items as preserved as they had been before
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/140872. As was the case before
that change, because rustc passes `-z ignore` to illumos `ld`, it's
possible that `used` sections are GC'd at link time.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/146169 describes this
unfortunate circumstance.
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