Tests for the cleanup paths nothing was watching

From a mutation-testing pass: about sixty small, plausible changes to the
compiler and runtime, each applied, run and restored. Nineteen of them left the
whole suite green. The compiler was right in every case - what was missing was
anything that looked.

The two programs here close the severe cluster. cleanup.flan covers six claims:
an early return runs the defers registered above it, and runs them innermost
first; a defer that calls something, which is what puts a guard inside a defer
on the transfer path; a transfer out of a handler-bind pops its frames; a
two-clause handler-bind pops both; and a signal stops once a handler has
answered it by transferring. The numbers differ per failure, so a wrong answer
names its own cause rather than just being wrong.

signedness.flan covers the ashr/lshr and slt/ult choices. Either could have been
hardcoded to one arm and nothing would have noticed, because no program in the
corpus shifted a negative integer right or compared an unsigned value above
2^31 - where a signed compare answers the other way on every operator.

Each was verified able to fail, with the numbers the report predicted: hardcode
lshr and -4 becomes 9223372036854775804; drop the defers from the return path
and 21 becomes 0; reverse them and it becomes 12; let the signal walk continue
past a handler that transferred and the outer handler runs too.

The ones left open are recorded for the next pass: Reach's walk of index
expressions, addr places and restart clause bodies; the dev registry's
size-change guard; a local shadowing an imported name; and the 4K result cap,
which has no coverage at all rather than a missing assertion.
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;;;; The cleanup paths nothing was watching.
;;;;
;;;; Found by mutation testing: each of the six claims below could be broken in
;;;; lib/check.ml, lib/emit.ml or runtime/flan_rt.c and the whole suite stayed
;;;; green. Every case here is one a plausible wrong version gets wrong, and
;;;; the numbers differ per failure so a single wrong answer names its cause.
(defstruct Missing [id i32])
(defstruct Other [id i32])
(defvar log i64)
(defvar order i64)
(defvar seen i64)
(defn note [n i64] (set order (+ (* order 10) n)))
;;; (1) An early return must run the defers registered above it, and (2) it
;;; must run them innermost-first. A defer that (8) *calls* something is the
;;; case that puts a guard inside the defer, on the transfer path.
(defn early [] i64
(defer (note 1))
(defer (note 2))
(return 7)
0)
;;; (5) A transfer out of a handler-bind has to pop its frames on the way past,
;;; and (6) a handler-bind with two clauses has to pop both, innermost-first.
;;; If either leaks, the stack keeps a frame pointing into a function that has
;;; gone, and the next signal calls into it.
(defn deep [] i32 (signal (Missing {:id 1})) 0)
(defn leaky [] i32
(restart-case
(handler-bind [(Other [c] (set seen (+ seen 1000)))
(Missing [c] (invoke-restart 'skip))]
(deep))
(skip [] 42)))
;;; (7) Once a handler has answered a signal by transferring, the walk stops:
;;; an outer handler of the same type must not also run.
(defn nested [] i32
(restart-case
(handler-bind [(Missing [c] (set seen (+ seen 100)))]
(handler-bind [(Missing [c] (invoke-restart 'stop))]
(deep)))
(stop [] 5)))
(defn main [] i32
(print-i64 (early)) (newline) ; 7
(print-i64 order) (newline) ; 21 — innermost first, both ran
(print-i64 (i64 (leaky))) (newline) ; 42
;; The handler stack must be empty again. If a frame leaked, this signal
;; reaches it and seen moves.
(deep)
(print-i64 seen) (newline) ; 0
(set seen 0)
(print-i64 (i64 (nested))) (newline) ; 5
(print-i64 seen) (newline) ; 0 — the outer handler did not run
(print-i64 log) (newline) ; 0
0)

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;;;; Signedness, which nothing in the corpus was exercising.
;;;;
;;;; Found by mutation testing: emit.ml chooses ashr vs lshr and slt vs ult
;;;; from the operand's type, and both choices could be hardcoded to one arm
;;;; with the whole suite still green — because no program shifted a negative
;;;; integer right, and none compared an unsigned value above 2^31.
(defn main [] i32
;; An arithmetic shift keeps the sign. A logical one on -8 gives a number
;; near 2^63, which is the wrong answer that looks like a huge right one.
(print-i64 (>> (i64 -8) 1)) (newline) ; -4
(print-i64 (>> (i64 -1) 40)) (newline) ; -1, still, however far it goes
;; And unsigned stays unsigned: 3000000000 has its top bit set, so a signed
;; compare reads it as negative and answers the other way on every operator.
(let [big (bit-or (<< (u32 1) 31) (u32 1000))] ; 2^31 + 1000
(print-line (if (< big (u32 5)) "wrong: signed compare" "big is not small"))
(print-line (if (> big (u32 5)) "big is large" "wrong: signed compare"))
;; The same value through >>, which is logical on an unsigned type: a
;; signed shift here would keep the top bit and answer near 2^31 again.
(print-i64 (i64 (>> big 31))) (newline)) ; 1
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"(declare-c a [] \"Same\")\n(declare-c b [] \"Same\")"
"one declare-c per C function";
(* Two programs written against a mutation-testing report, each covering a
claim the whole suite could be broken on while staying green.
cleanup.flan: a return running the defers above it, and running them
innermost-first; a defer that calls something, so a guard is emitted
inside it on the transfer path; a transfer out of a handler-bind popping
its frames; a two-clause handler-bind popping both; and a signal that
stops at the inner handler once that one has answered it by
transferring. Six claims, and the numbers differ per failure so a wrong
answer names its own cause.
signedness.flan: the ashr/lshr and slt/ult choices, which emit.ml makes
from the operand's type. Either could have been hardcoded to one arm,
because nothing in the corpus shifted a negative right or compared an
unsigned value above 2^31. *)
let cleanup_out = "7\n21\n42\n0\n5\n0\n0\n" in
outputs "cleanup paths" "programs/cleanup.flan" cleanup_out;
outputs ~opt:"-O0" "cleanup paths, -O0" "programs/cleanup.flan" cleanup_out;
let signed_out = "-4\n-1\nbig is not small\nbig is large\n1\n" in
outputs "signedness" "programs/signedness.flan" signed_out;
outputs ~opt:"-O0" "signedness, -O0" "programs/signedness.flan" signed_out;
if !failures = 0 then print_endline "acceptance: all tests passed"
else begin
Printf.printf "\n%d failure(s)\n" !failures;