Add `-Z embed-source` (DWARFv5 source code embedding extension)

[Mrmaxmeier]

Proposal

DWARFv5 has an extension for embedding program source code directly into the debug info sections: https://dwarfstd.org/issues/180201.1.html

LLVM implements this extension, though it currently uses a custom pre-standardization attribute opcode.

Clang supports it through a -gembed-source flag but Rust does not expose this feature at the moment.

Implementing this seems straight-forward (rust-lang/rust#126985) but I'm not entirely sure how to deal with unsupported platforms.

• Should -Z embed-source=yes fail the build on non-DWARF or non-LLVM platforms?
• Should -Z embed-source=yes automatically bump the DWARF version to v5 or should it require an explicit -Z dwarf-version=5? Clang currently defaults to v4 and requires setting the DWARF version explicitly.
• Should -Z embed-source=yes fail the build if -g was not provided?

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[davidtwco]

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[apiraino]

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