By calculating the abi size of the struct, we move the stack pointer and store each field depending on its size (i.e. a 1-byte field will use i32.store8). This commit adds all required opcodes to perform those stores and loads. This also gets rid of `mir_offset` as we now save results of binary operations into locals and emit its result onto the stack within condbr instead. This makes everything a lot simpler but also more robust. In the future, we could look into an algorithm to re-use such locals. For struct fields we use the new `local_with_offset` tag. This stores the struct's stack pointer as well as the field's offset from that stack pointer. `allocLocal` will now always allocate a single local, using a given type.
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