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Alex Crichton cc4be18119 Reduce boilerplate in wasmtime-wasi (#707)
This commit uses the `*.witx` files describing the current wasi API to
reduce the boilerplate used to define implementations in the
`wasmtime-wasi` crate. Eventually I'd like to remove lots of boilerplate
in the `wasi-common` crate too, but this should at least be a good start!

The boilerplate removed here is:

* No need to list each function to add it to the
  `wasmtime_runtime::Module` being created

* No need to list the signature of the function in a separate
  `syscalls.rs` file.

Instead the `*.witx` file is processed in a single-use macro inside the
`wasmtime-wasi` crate. This macro uses the signatures known from
`*.witx` to automatically register with the right type in the wasm
module as well as define a wrapper that the wasm module will call into.
Functionally this is all the same as before, it's just defined in a
different way now!

The shim generated by this macro which wasmtime calls into only uses
`i32`/`i64`/etc wasm types, and it internally uses `as` casts to convert
to the right wasi types when delegating into the `wasi-common` crate.

One change was necessary to get this implemented, however. The functions
in `wasi-common` sometimes took `WasiCtx` and sometimes took a slice of
memory. After this PR they uniformly all require both `WasiCtx` and
memory so the wrappers can be auto-generated. The arguments are ignored
if they weren't previously required.
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