ll_union_merge(): pass name labels to ll_xdl_merge()

Since cd1d61c44f (make union merge an xdl merge favor, 2010-03-01), we
pass NULL to ll_xdl_merge() for the "name" labels of the ancestor, ours
and theirs buffers. We usually use these for annotating conflict markers
left in a file. For a union merge, these shouldn't matter; the point of
it is that we'd never leave conflict markers in the first place.

But there is one code path where we may dereference them: if the file
contents appear to be binary, ll_binary_merge() will give up and pass
them to warning() to generate a message for the user (that was true even
when cd1d61c44f was written, though the warning was in ll_xdl_merge()
back then).

That can result in a segfault, though on many systems (including glibc),
the printf routines will helpfully just say "(null)" instead. We can
extend our binary-union test in t6406 to check stderr, which catches the
problem on all systems.

This also fixes a warning from "gcc -O3". Unlike lower optimization
levels, it inlines enough to see that the NULL can make it to warning()
and complains:

  In function ‘ll_binary_merge’,
      inlined from ‘ll_xdl_merge’ at ll-merge.c:115:10,
      inlined from ‘ll_union_merge’ at ll-merge.c:151:9:
  ll-merge.c:74:4: warning: ‘%s’ directive argument is null [-Wformat-overflow=]
     74 |    warning("Cannot merge binary files: %s (%s vs. %s)",
        |    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     75 |     path, name1, name2);
        |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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