separate tags and typedefs

C has two namespaces and the database had one. A typedef of a tag's
name wiped it.

Tags, i.e. struct, enum and union, share one namespace; they move to a
table of their own. A name resolves the way C does: the ordinary
identifier first, the tag when that leads nowhere.

While resolving a typedef, the target was taken apart with cadr
whatever it was, so (typedef points (¤ point 4)) reported point's
fields as its own -- an array of four points claiming to be a point,
and a macro reaching through it with v->x. Only a name and
(struct|union|enum NAME) name a type now.
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#f
(get-fields 't-u8))
;; C keeps typedefs and ordinary identifiers apart, and the canonical way
;; to declare a struct uses both names at once. Neither declaration
;; may stand on the other.
(add-struct 't-node '(struct t-node ((next (* t-node)) (v int))))
(add-typedef 't-node '(typedef t-node (struct t-node)))
(test "a typedef of a struct's own name keeps the struct reachable"
'((next (* t-node)) (v int))
(get-fields 't-node))
(test "and the tag is there under its own name"
'(struct t-node ((next (* t-node)) (v int)))
(get-tag-info 't-node))
(add-struct 't-rect '(struct t-rect ((w int) (h int))))
(add-define 't-rect '(define t-rect 3))
(test "a define of a tag's name does not hide the fields"
'((w int) (h int))
(get-fields 't-rect))
;; A type built over a struct is not that struct. Handing back the
;; element's fields would have a macro write v->x for an array
(add-typedef 't-points '(typedef t-points (¤ t-point 4)))
(test "an array of a struct has no fields of its own"
#f
(get-fields 't-points))
(add-typedef 't-point-p '(typedef t-point-p (* t-point)))
(test "nor does a pointer to one"
#f
(get-fields 't-point-p))
(add-typedef 't-cb '(typedef t-cb (fn ((t-point)) void)))
(test "nor a function type over one"
#f
(get-fields 't-cb))
;; A typedef can be written to lead back to itself. Resolving it must
;; stop rather than spin
(add-typedef 't-loop-a '(typedef t-loop-a t-loop-b))