This is trying to keep algorithms out if the ir module which deals with
the intermediate representation.
Also give the layout_stack() function a Result return value so it can
report a soft error when the stack frame is too large instead of
asserting. Since local variables can be arbitrarily large, it is easy
enough to overflow the stack with even a small function.
* Replace a single-character string literal with a character literal.
* Use is_some() instead of comparing with Some(_).
* Add code-quotes around type names in comments.
* Use !...is_empty() instead of len() != 0.
* Tidy up redundant returns.
* Remove redundant .clone() calls.
* Remove unnecessary explicit lifetime parameters.
* Tidy up unnecessary '&'s.
* Add parens to make operator precedence explicit.
* Use debug_assert_eq instead of debug_assert with ==.
* Replace a &Vec argument with a &[...].
* Replace `a = a op b` with `a op= b`.
* Avoid unnecessary closures.
* Avoid .iter() and .iter_mut() for iterating over containers.
* Remove unneeded qualification.
