Add the ability to dump type information to a JSON file #16027
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If the environment variable
CRYSTAL_DUMP_TYPE_INFO
is set, at build time the compiler will emit a bunch of type information to a JSON file at that path. The JSON looks something like:At the moment this is intended to be an internal tool that supplements the similarly named
CRYSTAL_DUMP_TYPE_ID
environment variable. I originally made this to generate human-readable reports from GC heap dumps, but there are probably other good uses like enhancing the debugger support scripts.