This to protect against non-sensical instruction sequences being assembled,
which would either cause asserts/crashes further down, or a Wasm module being output that doesn't validate.
Unlike a validator, this type checker is able to give type-errors as part of the parsing process, which makes the assembler much friendlier to be used by humans writing manual input.
Because the MC system is single pass (instructions aren't even stored in MC format, they are directly output) the type checker has to be single pass as well, which means that from now on .globaltype and .functype decls must come before their use. An extra pass is added to Codegen to collect information for this purpose, since AsmPrinter is normally single pass / streaming as well, and would otherwise generate this information on the fly.
A `-no-type-check` flag was added to llvm-mc (and any other tools that take asm input) that surpresses type errors, as a quick escape hatch for tests that were not intended to be type correct.
This is a first version of the type checker that ignores control flow, i.e. it checks that types are correct along the linear path, but not the branch path. This will still catch most errors. Branch checking could be added in the future.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104945
Just like the in case for function and data symbols this is needed to
support relocations in debug info sections which are allowed contains
relocations against non-live symbols.
The motivating use case is an object file that contains debug info that
references `__stack_pointer` (a local symbol) but does not actually
contain any uses of `__stack_pointer`.
Fixes: https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/14025
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101399
Wouter van Oortmerssen