The failure crate invents its own traits that don't use
std::error::Error (because failure predates certain features added to
Error); this prevents using ? on an error from failure in a function
using Error. The thiserror crate integrates with the standard Error
trait instead.
The result of the emitter is a vector of bytes holding machine code,
jump tables, and (in the future) other read-only data. Some clients,
notably Firefox's Wasm compiler, needs to separate the machine code
from the data in order to insert more code directly after the code
generated by Cranelift.
To make such separation possible, we record more information about the
emitted bytes: the sizes of each of the sections of code, jump tables,
and read-only data, as well as the locations within the code that
reference (PC-relatively) the jump tables and read-only data.
