Integrated: Simplify jextract backend pipeline

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:19:17 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Now that we have mutable attributes, we can make the jextract pipeline a little simpler, by making sure that each step in the jextract pipeline doesn't destroy the information contained in the jextract model and, additionally, by making sure that each step can only add attributes to the IR (which are acted upon later on).
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> To do this, I had to do some foundational changes to TreeMaker, to make sure that all declaration nodes were being correctly de-duplicated: since declarations are referenced back by types, if a declaration is re-created multiple times, the types pointing to that declaration end up being out of sync, and that's not desirable (because that could lead to a loss of some of the attributes).
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> I also removed the `Transformer` interface: altering the model is not something the jextract pipeline should attempt to do. This meant that existing transformers have been reimplemented as side-effecting visitors, as follows:
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> * `EnumConstantLifter` adds an attribute to constants which belong to an enum (but no longer drops the enum on the ground);
> * `IncludeFilter` marks several declaration with a `Skip` attribute, to signal `outputFactory` not to generate any code for them;
> * `DuplicateFilter` also uses the `Skip` attribute to drop redundant declarations.
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> Additionally, the `NameMangler` has been simplified quite a bit, to the point that now it is just a simple visitor which ends up attaching attributes to declarations (`JavaName`, `JavaParameterNames`, `JavaFunctionalInterfaceName`). These attributes are later inspected (from `OutputFactory`). Since now the attribute is added directly to the relevant declaration, there is no need to have complex keying logic inside `NameMangler`.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: f388d6d6
Author:    Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jextract/commit/f388d6d6bf7329be81e9deeac2b213748283a63f
Stats:     522 lines in 15 files changed: 146 ins; 253 del; 123 mod

Simplify jextract backend pipeline

Reviewed-by: jvernee

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jextract/pull/148