* removed dead code
* we need even more laziness for the generic caches
* make it bootstrap on older Nims
* wrote more deserialization code
* IC: replay required methods information
* IC: dead code elimination pass
* preparations for a different codegen strategy
* added documentation to the newly written code
* IC: backend code
* IC: backend adjustments
* optimized the compiler a bit
* IC: yet another massive refactoring
* fixes regressions
* cleanups
* reworked ID handling
* the packed AST now has its own ID mechanism
* basic serialization code works
* extract rodfiles to its own module
* rodfiles: store and compare configs
* rodfiles: store dependencies
* store config at the end
* precise dependency tracking
* dependency tracking for rodfiles
* completed loading of PSym, PType, etc
* removed dead code
* bugfix: do not realloc seqs when taking addr into an element
* make IC opt-in for now
* makes tcompilerapi green again
* final cleanups
Co-authored-by: Andy Davidoff <github@andy.disruptek.com>
* refactoring: idents don't need inheritance
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 1)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 2)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 3)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 4)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* IdGenerator must be a ref type; hello world works again
* make bootstrapping work again
* progress: add back the 'exactReplica' ideas
* added back the missing exactReplica hacks
* make tcompilerapi work again
* make important packages green
* attempt to fix the build for 32 bit machines (probably need a better solution here)
* scope based destructors
* handle 'or' and 'and' expressions properly, see the new test arc/tcontrolflow.nim
* make this branch mergable, logic is disabled for now
Using getSysSym made the compiler pick a random `and` symbol: if the
symbol table is shuffled we may end up selecting one of the wrong
overloads.
Fixes#8246
When method prototypes were involved (e.g. forward declarations
for mutual recursion), calls were sometimes dispatched to the
wrong method implementation. One of the reasons was that method
dispatchers were then not always attached to method ASTs in
the correct place.
When creating a method dispatcher, the location of the underlying
method was copied. Under some circumstances, the name of the
location (loc.r) was already initialized, in which case the
method dispatcher shared a name with one of the methods, leading
to a C compiler error. By setting loc.r to nil when copying
the dispatcher information from the original method, we ensure
that the dispatcher C function gets its proper name.
