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Andreas Kling
003589db2d LibJS: Generate C++ bytecode instruction classes from a definition file
This commit adds a new Bytecode.def file that describes all the LibJS
bytecode instructions.

From this, we are able to generate the full declarations for all C++
bytecode instruction classes, as well as their serialization code.

Note that some of the bytecode compiler was updated since instructions
no longer have default constructor arguments.

The big immediate benefit here is that we lose a couple thousand lines
of hand-written C++ code. Going forward, this also allows us to do more
tooling for the bytecode VM, now that we have an authoritative
description of its instructions.

Key things to know about:

- Instructions can inherit from one another. At the moment, everything
  simply inherits from the base "Instruction".

- @terminator means the instruction terminates a basic block.

- @nothrow means the instruction cannot throw. This affects how the
  interpreter interacts with it.

- Variable-length instructions are automatically supported. Just put an
  array of something as the last field of the instruction.

- The m_length field is magical. If present, it will be populated with
  the full length of the instruction. This is used for variable-length
  instructions.
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