Fix linked lists in reflection #489
Merged
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Linked lists are usually implemented as follows:
This caused a stack overflow while writing out the reflect run-time type
information. This has now been fixed by splitting the allocation of a
named type number from setting the underlying type in the sidetable.
Oh man, this bug took so long to fix! I somehow just couldn't grasp the problem well enough, causing me to work on it for a whole day...
This should fix the remaining issue in #466 that causes the build to fail there. (That doesn't mean that PR is mergeable, but should get CI green at least).