[dev.link] cmd/internal/goobj2, cmd/link: add content addressable symbols

This CL introduces content-addressable symbols (a.k.a. hashed
symbols) to object files. Content-addressable symbols are
identified and referenced by their content hashes, instead of by
names.

In the object file, a new pseudo-package index PkgIdxHashed is
introduced, for content-addressable symbols, and a new block is
added to store their hashes. The hashes are used by the linker to
identify and deduplicate the symbols.

For now, we only support content-addressable symbols that are
always locally defined (i.e. no cross-package references).

As a proof of concept, make string constant symbols content-
addressable.

Change-Id: Iaf53efd74c0ffb54fa95f784628cc84e95844536
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/242079
Run-TryBot: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Faller <jeremy@golang.org>
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