Codegen: use type forward declarations more aggresively. Fixes #7339 (#7340)

Do not emit object definition it if used only by ref or ptr

compiler/ccgexprs.nim

@@ -1364,6 +1364,7 @@ proc genOf(p: BProc, x: PNode, typ: PType, d: var TLoc) =
     if t.kind notin {tyVar, tyLent} or not p.module.compileToCpp:
       r = rfmt(nil, "(*$1)", r)
     t = skipTypes(t.lastSon, typedescInst)
+  discard getTypeDesc(p.module, t)
   if not p.module.compileToCpp:
     while t.kind == tyObject and t.sons[0] != nil:
       add(r, ~".Sup")
@@ -2062,6 +2063,7 @@ proc upConv(p: BProc, n: PNode, d: var TLoc) =
 
 proc downConv(p: BProc, n: PNode, d: var TLoc) =
   if p.module.compileToCpp:
+    discard getTypeDesc(p.module, skipTypes(n[0].typ, abstractPtrs))
     expr(p, n.sons[0], d)     # downcast does C++ for us
   else:
     var dest = skipTypes(n.typ, abstractPtrs)
@@ -2070,6 +2072,7 @@ proc downConv(p: BProc, n: PNode, d: var TLoc) =
     while arg.kind == nkObjDownConv: arg = arg.sons[0]
 
     var src = skipTypes(arg.typ, abstractPtrs)
+    discard getTypeDesc(p.module, src)
     var a: TLoc
     initLocExpr(p, arg, a)
     var r = rdLoc(a)

compiler/ccgtypes.nim

@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ proc getTypeForward(m: BModule, typ: PType; sig: SigHash): Rope =
     if not isImportedType(concrete):
       addf(m.s[cfsForwardTypes], getForwardStructFormat(m),
           [structOrUnion(typ), result])
+    else:
+      pushType(m, concrete)
     doAssert m.forwTypeCache[sig] == result
   else: internalError("getTypeForward(" & $typ.kind & ')')
 
@@ -665,7 +667,6 @@ proc getTypeDescAux(m: BModule, origTyp: PType, check: var IntSet): Rope =
         let name = getTypeForward(m, et, hashType et)
         result = name & star
         m.typeCache[sig] = result
-        pushType(m, et)
     of tySequence:
       # no restriction! We have a forward declaration for structs
       let name = getTypeForward(m, et, hashType et)