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Follows up #24423, needed more refactoring than I expected, sorry for
ugly diff.
With this pretty much all of the raw C code generating parts of the
codegen are abstracted into the cbuilder API (to my knowledge at least).
The current design of NIFC does not implement everything the codegen
generates, such things have mostly not been adapted, they are the
following along with how I'm guessing they could be implemented:
* C++ specific codegen: Maybe a dialect of NIFC for generating C++?
* `codegenDecl` pragma: Could be passed as a pragma to NIFC
* C macros, currently only used for line info IIRC i.e. `nimln_(123)`:
Just inline them when generating NIFC
* Other C defines & `#line`: Maybe as NIFC directives or line infos?
* There is also [this
`#ifndef`](21420d8b09/compiler/cgen.nim (L2249))
when generating headers but NIFC shouldn't need it
* `alignof`/`offsetof`: Is in `cbuilder` but not implemented in NIFC,
should be easy
For now we can disable C++ and the `codegenDecl` pragma when generating
NIFC but since cbuilder is mostly designed to generate NIFC as a flag
when booting the compiler, this hinders the ability to run the CI
against NIFC. Maybe we could also make cbuilder able to generate both C
and NIFC at runtime, this would be a large refactor but wouldn't be too
difficult.
Other missing abstractions before being able to generate NIFC are:
* Primitive types and symbols i.e. `int`, `void*`, `NI`, `NIM_NULL` are
currently still constant string literals, `NU8`, `NU16` etc are also
sometimes generated like `"NU" & $bits`.
* NIFC identifiers, i.e. adding `.c` to imported symbols and properly
mangling generated ones. Not sure how difficult this is going to be.