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Pietro Fezzardi e1b283b0b6 Add RecursiveCoroutine headers and tests
RecursiveCoroutines are a facility intended to be used as-drop in
replacement of recursive functions.

They provide the following features.
- They can be written almost as regular recursive functions,
  with 4 caveats.
  1. A recursive coroutine that returns a type `T`, needs to be declared
     to return a `RecursiveCoroutine<T>`.
  2. Inside the body of a recursive coroutine, when recursively calling
     another recursive coroutine, the recursive call needs to be
     prepended by the new keyword `rc_recur`.
  3. Inside the body of a recursive coroutine, the `return` statement
     needs to be substituted with `rc_return`.
  4. When launching a recursive coroutine `A` from a function that is
     not a recursive coroutine, `A` needs to be called with the provided
     dedicated template wrapper `rc_run`.
     The syntax is the following `rc_run(A, arg0, arg1, ...)`.
     This is necessary to enable swapping off recursive coroutine and
     fall back to regular recursion for debug.
     See below for how to do it.
- Unlike regular recursive functions, they don't use the system stack
  for recursion. They use a custom heap-allocated stack to manage
  recursion. This makes them more robust for implementing recursive
  functions that manipulate user-defined input, because they are much
  less likely to trigger stack overflow.
- They can be turned off compiling with
  `-DDISABLE_RECURSIVE_COROUTINES`, falling back to regular recursion,
  for debug purposes.
- They support both direct and indirect recursion, i.e. a recursive
  coroutine A can recursively call itself, or it can recursively call
  another recursive coroutine B, which in turns recursively calls A.
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#pragma once
//
// This file is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for details.
//
#if defined(DISABLE_RECURSIVE_COROUTINES)
#include "RecursiveCoroutine-fallback.h"
#else
#include "RecursiveCoroutine-coroutine.h"
#endif