Auto merge of rust-lang#138503 - bjorn3:string_merging, r=tmiasko

Avoid wrapping constant allocations in packed structs when not necessary

This way LLVM will set the string merging flag if the alloc is a nul terminated string, reducing binary sizes.

try-job: armhf-gnu

Author: bors

src/consts.rs

@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ pub fn const_alloc_to_gcc<'gcc>(
         llvals.push(cx.const_bytes(bytes));
     }
 
+    // FIXME(bjorn3) avoid wrapping in a struct when there is only a single element.
     cx.const_struct(&llvals, true)
 }