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- any architecture may explicitely build with qstring make
  QSTR_AUTOGEN_DISABLE=1 autogeneration disabled and provide its
  own list of qstrings by the standard
  mechanisms (qstrdefsport.h).

Note this still needs some work: currently all source files are always
preprocessed no matter which one actually changed, moreover that happens
file by file without any parallellism so builds are painstakingly slow.

- add template rule that converts a specified source file into a qstring file

- add special rule for generating a central header that contains all
  extracted/autogenerated strings - defined by QSTR_DEFS_COLLECTED
  variable. Each platform appends a list of sources that may contain
  qstrings into a new build variable: SRC_QSTR. Any autogenerated
  prerequisities are should be appened to SRC_QSTR_AUTO_DEPS variable.

- remove most qstrings from py/qstrdefs, keep only qstrings that
  contain special characters - these cannot be easily detected in the
  sources without additional annotations

- remove most manual qstrdefs, use qstrdef autogen for: py, cc3200,
  stmhal, teensy, unix, windows, pic16bit:

   - remove all micropython generic qstrdefs except for the special strings that contain special characters (e.g. /,+,<,> etc.)
   - remove all port specific qstrdefs except for special strings
   - append sources for qstr generation in platform makefiles (SRC_QSTR)

This script will search for patterns of the form Q(...) and generate a
list of them.

The original code by Pavel Moravec has been significantly simplified to
remove the part that searched for C preprocessor directives (eg #if).
This is because all source is now run through CPP before being fed into
this script.

Small hash tables (eg those used in user class instances that only have a
few members) now only use the minimum amount of memory necessary to hold
the key/value pairs.  This can reduce performance for instances that have
many members (because then there are many reallocations/rehashings of the
table), but helps to conserve memory.

See issue #1760.

Don't describe just single port's peculiarities, note aboute possible
array of issues with floating-point.

Should fix issue #1947.

"" is the correct name of the root directory when mounting a device there
(as opposed to "/").  One can now do os.listdir('/') and open('/abc'), as
well as os.listdir() and open('abc').

These are *defined* per-port, but why redeclare them again and again.

A shortcut for users to provide background diagnostic info for bug
reports.

The qstr data needs to be turned into a proper C string so non-ASCII
chars must be properly escaped according to C rules.

Most grammar rules can optimise to the identity if they only have a single
argument, saving a lot of RAM building the parse tree.  Previous to this
patch, whether a given grammar rule could be optimised was defined (mostly
implicitly) by a complicated set of logic rules.  With this patch the
definition is always specified explicitly by using "and_ident" in the rule
definition in the grammar.  This simplifies the logic of the parser,
making it a bit smaller and faster.  RAM usage in unaffected.

esponewire.c contains low-level timing-critical functions that go in
iRAM.  modonewire.c contains Python wrapper code.

Now pins can be easily looked up in the table using the pin number as the
index and vice versa.

This field is the same as phys_port and not needed.

Non-printable characters are escaped as 0xXX, where XX are the hex
digits of the character value.