The changes in the compiler ensure that extern classes (or sub classes of Pointer) are always boxed when in the generated code. This means that we now have 2 levels of boxing, the boxing within Nit and the unboxing for user C code where extern classes are pointers (FFI and legacy NI).
This change will allow to use extern classes in virtual types and generic types. It will be used by the `android::ui` modules.
The change also detected some wrongful use of the FFI which have been corected.
There's a bug weird on my computer on the test of nitcc, hopefully pratchett will do better.
Pull-Request: #715
Reviewed-by: Jean Privat <jean@pryen.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Terrasa <alexandre@moz-code.org>
Reviewed-by: Lucas Bajolet <r4pass@hotmail.com>
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