This commit adds a bunch of passes, the most interesting of which is a
pass that merges blocks together, and a pass that places blocks that
flow into each other next to each other, and a very simply pass that
removes duplicate basic blocks.
Note that this does not remove the jump at the end of each block in that
pass to avoid scope creep in the passes.
These are pretty hairy if someone forgets to override one, as the
catchall function in Instruction will keep calling itself over and over
again, leading to really hard-to-debug situations.
This commit implements parsing for `yield *expr`, and the multiple
ways something can or can't be parsed like that.
Also makes yield-from a TODO in the bytecode generator.
Behold, the glory of javascript syntax:
```js
// 'yield' = expression in generators.
function* foo() {
yield
*bar; // <- Syntax error here, expression can't start with *
}
// 'yield' = identifier anywhere else.
function foo() {
yield
*bar; // Perfectly fine, this is just `yield * bar`
}
```
This is generated for Identifier nodes that represent a function
argument variable. It loads a given argument index from the current
call frame into the accumulator.
Instead of doing a generic scoped variable lookup, function arguments
now go directly to the call frame arguments list.
This is a huge speedup on everything that uses arguments. :^)
Previously, default argument values would only show up when accessing
the argument by parameter name. This patch makes us write them back
into the call frame so they can be accessed via VM::argument() as well.
This patch adds an "argument index" field to Identifier AST nodes.
If the Identifier refers to a function parameter in the currently
open function scope, we stash the index of the parameter here.
This will allow us to implement much faster direct access to function
argument variables.
We were doing a *lot* of string-to-int conversion while creating a new
global object. This happened because Object::put() would try to convert
the property name (string) to an integer to see if it refers to an
indexed property.
Sidestep this issue by using PropertyName for the CommonPropertyNames
struct on VM (vm.names.foo), and giving PropertyName a flag that tells
us whether it's a string that *may be* a number.
All CommonPropertyNames are set up so they are known to not be numbers.
Some of the code assumed that chars were always signed while that is
not the case on ARM hosts.
Also, some of the code tried to use EOF (-1) in a way similar to what
fgetc() does, however instead of storing the characters in an int
variable a char was used.
While this seemed to work it also meant that character 0xFF would be
incorrectly seen as an end-of-file.
Careful reading of fgetc() reveals that fgetc() stores character
data in an int where valid characters are in the range of 0-255 and
the EOF value is explicitly outside of that range (usually -1).
