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The main motivation for this commit is eliminating Decl.value_arena. Everything else is dominoes. Decl.name used to be stored in the GPA, now it is stored in InternPool. It ended up being simpler to migrate other strings to be interned as well, such as struct field names, union field names, and a few others. This ended up requiring a big diff, sorry about that. But the changes are pretty nice, we finally start to take advantage of InternPool's existence. global_error_set and error_name_list are simplified. Now it is a single ArrayHashMap(NullTerminatedString, void) and the index is the error tag value. Module.tmp_hack_arena is re-introduced (it was removed in eeff407941560ce8eb5b737b2436dfa93cfd3a0c) in order to deal with comptime_args, optimized_order, and struct and union fields. After structs and unions get moved into InternPool properly, tmp_hack_arena can be deleted again.
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