Store rlink data in opaque binary format on disk #93681
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This removes one of the only uses of JSON decoding (to Rust structs) from the compiler, and fixes the FIXME comment. It's not clear to me what the reason for using JSON here originally was, and from what I can tell nothing outside of rustc expects to read the emitted information, so it seems like a reasonable step to move it to the metadata-encoding format (rustc_serialize::opaque).
Mostly intended as a FIXME fix, though potentially a stepping stone to dropping the support for Decodable to be used to decode JSON entirely (allowing for better/faster APIs on the Decoder trait).
cc #64191