Auto merge of rust-lang#91957 - nnethercote:rm-SymbolStr, r=oli-obk

Remove `SymbolStr`

This was originally proposed in rust-lang#74554 (comment). As well as removing the icky `SymbolStr` type, it allows the removal of a lot of `&` and `*` occurrences.

Best reviewed one commit at a time.

r? `@oli-obk`

Author: bors

src/constant.rs

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ fn define_all_allocs(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, module: &mut dyn Module, cx: &mut Constant
             TodoItem::Static(def_id) => {
                 //println!("static {:?}", def_id);
 
-                let section_name = tcx.codegen_fn_attrs(def_id).link_section.map(|s| s.as_str());
+                let section_name = tcx.codegen_fn_attrs(def_id).link_section;
 
                 let alloc = tcx.eval_static_initializer(def_id).unwrap();
 
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ fn define_all_allocs(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, module: &mut dyn Module, cx: &mut Constant
 
         if let Some(section_name) = section_name {
             let (segment_name, section_name) = if tcx.sess.target.is_like_osx {
+                let section_name = section_name.as_str();
                 if let Some(names) = section_name.split_once(',') {
                     names
                 } else {
@@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ fn define_all_allocs(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, module: &mut dyn Module, cx: &mut Constant
                     ));
                 }
             } else {
-                ("", &*section_name)
+                ("", section_name.as_str())
             };
             data_ctx.set_segment_section(segment_name, section_name);
         }

src/driver/aot.rs

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ fn reuse_workproduct_for_cgu(
     let work_product = cgu.work_product(tcx);
     if let Some(saved_file) = &work_product.saved_file {
         let obj_out =
-            tcx.output_filenames(()).temp_path(OutputType::Object, Some(&cgu.name().as_str()));
+            tcx.output_filenames(()).temp_path(OutputType::Object, Some(cgu.name().as_str()));
         object = Some(obj_out.clone());
         let source_file = rustc_incremental::in_incr_comp_dir_sess(&tcx.sess, &saved_file);
         if let Err(err) = rustc_fs_util::link_or_copy(&source_file, &obj_out) {
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ fn module_codegen(
         )
     });
 
-    codegen_global_asm(tcx, &cgu.name().as_str(), &cx.global_asm);
+    codegen_global_asm(tcx, cgu.name().as_str(), &cx.global_asm);
 
     codegen_result
 }
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ pub(crate) fn run_aot(
         cgus.iter()
             .map(|cgu| {
                 let cgu_reuse = determine_cgu_reuse(tcx, cgu);
-                tcx.sess.cgu_reuse_tracker.set_actual_reuse(&cgu.name().as_str(), cgu_reuse);
+                tcx.sess.cgu_reuse_tracker.set_actual_reuse(cgu.name().as_str(), cgu_reuse);
 
                 match cgu_reuse {
                     _ if backend_config.disable_incr_cache => {}