Remove from the `IfEqualNode` the reference to the BBNode corresponding
to the original `switch`, since we cannot have the guarantee that this
node will remain allocated in the same place (the pointer could be
invalidated).
Also insert other fixes.
Add a new AST node type for representing the nodes created starting from
the dummy nodes built in place of a `switch` statement.
These nodes contain also the information needed for emitting the code
relative to the checks performed by the node (the condition and the case
value).
This node type inherits from the `IfNode` node type, to avoid
reimplementing all the methods for its handling and transformation.
Now considering the fact that the body of a loop may become empty if
some simplification take place (e.g. we match a `while` whose body is
composed only by a check with `break` and `continue` branches).
When a `while` loop is matched and promoted, add to every `continue`
node in the current scope the instructions needed for the computation of
the loop condition.
Now, during the simplification of short-circuits the so called
`de-optimization` is also applied to the corresponding `RegionCFGTree`.
This allows us to avoid loss of information during the iterative
refinement phase, which basically divides for ever the existencies of
two nodes that have been cloned starting from a single original one.
After short-circuit simplification, we can have that a conditional node
corresponds to more than one `BasicBlockNode`.
This change reflects this fact, and takes care of merging blocks during
short-circuit simplification, and of representing this change in the
serialization.
Now the `isEqual` operator does what we call a `deep` comparison,
meaning for every type of `ASTNode` it recursively check if the
structures of the AST tree originating in that node can be considered
equivalent (e.g., two sequence nodes are considered equal if every node
they contain is in turn equal).
This operator gives more space to the short-circuit simplification,
which relies heavily on the `isEqual` operator.
Andrea Gussoni