[flang] Lower boxed procedure
In FIR, we want to wrap function pointers in a special box known as a boxproc value. Fortran has a limited form of dynamic scoping [https://tinyurl.com/2p8v2hw7] between "host procedures" and "internal procedures". There are a number of implementations possible. Boxproc typed values abstract away the implementation details of when a function pointer can be passed directly (as a raw address) and when a function pointer has to account for the presence of a dynamic scope. When lowering Fortran syntax to FIR, all function pointers are emboxed as boxproc values. When creating LLVM IR, we must strip away the abstraction and produce low-level LLVM "assembly" code. This patch implements that transformation as converting the boxproc values to either raw function pointers or executable trampolines on the stack as needed. The trampoline then captures the dynamic scope context within an executable thunk that can be passed instead of the function's raw address. Some extra handling is r...
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