The TimeoutError is useful for some modules, specially the the
socket module. TimeoutError can then be alised to socket.timeout
and then Python code can differentiate between socket.error and
socket.timeout.

ISO C forbids conversion between function pointers and void*, gcc
-pedantic triggers a warning.

mp_obj_get_int_truncated will raise a TypeError if the argument is not
an integral type.  Use mp_obj_int_get_truncated only when you know the
argument is a small or big int.

Hashing is now done using mp_unary_op function with MP_UNARY_OP_HASH as
the operator argument.  Hashing for int, str and bytes still go via
fast-path in mp_unary_op since they are the most common objects which
need to be hashed.

This lead to quite a bit of code cleanup, and should be more efficient
if anything.  It saves 176 bytes code space on Thumb2, and 360 bytes on
x86.

The only loss is that the error message "unhashable type" is now the
more generic "unsupported type for __hash__".

Having NotImplemented as MP_OBJ_SENTINEL turned out to be problematic
(it needs to be checked for in a lot of places, otherwise it'll crash
as would pass MP_OBJ_IS_OBJ()), so made a proper singleton value like
Ellipsis, both of them sharing the same type.

This fixes a long standing problem that viper code generation gave
terrible error messages, and actually no errors on pyboard where
assertions are disabled.

Now all compile-time errors are raised as proper Python exceptions, and
are of type ViperTypeError.

Addresses issue #940.

Previous to this patch the printing mechanism was a bit of a tangled
mess.  This patch attempts to consolidate printing into one interface.

All (non-debug) printing now uses the mp_print* family of functions,
mainly mp_printf.  All these functions take an mp_print_t structure as
their first argument, and this structure defines the printing backend
through the "print_strn" function of said structure.

Printing from the uPy core can reach the platform-defined print code via
two paths: either through mp_sys_stdout_obj (defined pert port) in
conjunction with mp_stream_write; or through the mp_plat_print structure
which uses the MP_PLAT_PRINT_STRN macro to define how string are printed
on the platform.  The former is only used when MICROPY_PY_IO is defined.

With this new scheme printing is generally more efficient (less layers
to go through, less arguments to pass), and, given an mp_print_t*
structure, one can call mp_print_str for efficiency instead of
mp_printf("%s", ...).  Code size is also reduced by around 200 bytes on
Thumb2 archs.

This simplifies the API for objects and reduces code size (by around 400
bytes on Thumb2, and around 2k on x86).  Performance impact was measured
with Pystone score, but change was barely noticeable.

This patch gets full function argument passing working with native
emitter.  Includes named args, keyword args, default args, var args
and var keyword args.  Fully Python compliant.

It reuses the bytecode mp_setup_code_state function to do all the hard
work.  This function is slightly adjusted to accommodate native calls,
and the native emitter is forced a bit to emit similar prelude and
code-info as bytecode.

mp_obj_t internal representation doesn't have to be a pointer to object,
it can be anything.

There's also a support for back-conversion in the form of MP_OBJ_UNCAST.
This is kind of optimization/status quo preserver to minimize patching the
existing code and avoid doing potentially expensive MP_OBJ_CAST over and
over. But then one may imagine implementations where MP_OBJ_UNCAST is very
expensive. But such implementations are unlikely interesting in practice.

Disabled by default.  Enabled on unix and stmhal ports.

Addresses issue #1160.

Given that there's already support for "fixed table" maps, which are
essentially ordered maps, the implementation of OrderedDict just extends
"fixed table" maps by adding an "is ordered" flag and add/remove
operations, and reuses 95% of objdict code, just making methods tolerant
to both dict and OrderedDict.

Some things are missing so far, like CPython-compatible repr and comparison.

OrderedDict is Disabled by default; enabled on unix and stmhal ports.

This follows existing pattern for object constructor API and allows to
create memoryview objects e.g. in external modules.

This is rarely used feature which takes enough code to implement, so is
controlled by MICROPY_PY_ARRAY_SLICE_ASSIGN config setting, default off.
But otherwise it may be useful, as allows to update arbitrary-sized data
buffers in-place.

Slice is yet to implement, and actually, slice assignment implemented in
such a way that RHS of assignment should be array of the exact same item
typecode as LHS. CPython has it more relaxed, where RHS can be any sequence
of compatible types (e.g. it's possible to assign list of int's to a
bytearray slice).

Overall, when all "slice write" features are implemented, it may cost ~1KB
of code.

Still too shy to implement UnicodeEncodeError which was really needed for
micropython-lib case.

Defining NDEBUG (to any value, even 0) disables debugging.  Otherwise,
if it's not defined, debugging is enabled.

With this patch str/bytes construction is streamlined.  Always use a
vstr to build a str/bytes object.  If the size is known beforehand then
use vstr_init_len to allocate only required memory.  Otherwise use
vstr_init and the vstr will grow as needed.  Then use
mp_obj_new_str_from_vstr to create a str/bytes object using the vstr
memory.

Saves code ROM: 68 bytes on stmhal, 108 bytes on bare-arm, and 336 bytes
on unix x64.

This patch allows to reuse vstr memory when creating str/bytes object.
This improves memory usage.

Also saves code ROM: 128 bytes on stmhal, 92 bytes on bare-arm, and 88
bytes on unix x64.

See issue #699.

Previous patch c38dc3cc allowed any
object to be compared with any other, using pointer comparison for a
fallback.  As such, existing code which checked for this case is no
longer needed.

This fixes conversion when float type has more mantissa bits than small int,
and float value has small exponent. This is for example the case of 32-bit
platform using doubles, and converting value of time.time(). Conversion of
floats with larg exponnet is still not handled correctly.

This patch adds a configuration option (MICROPY_CAN_OVERRIDE_BUILTINS)
which, when enabled, allows to override all names within the builtins
module.  A builtins override dict is created the first time the user
assigns to a name in the builtins model, and then that dict is searched
first on subsequent lookups.  Note that this implementation doesn't
allow deleting of names.

This patch also does some refactoring of builtins code, creating the
modbuiltins.c file.

Addresses issue #959.

The function is modeled after traceback.print_exception(), but unbloated,
and put into existing module to save overhead on adding another module.
Compliant traceback.print_exception() is intended to be implemented in
micropython-lib in terms of sys.print_exception().

This change required refactoring mp_obj_print_exception() to take pfenv_t
interface arguments.

Addresses #751.

mp_obj_int_get_truncated is used as a "fast path" int accessor that
doesn't check for overflow and returns the int truncated to the machine
word size, ie mp_int_t.

Use mp_obj_int_get_truncated to fix struct.pack when packing maximum word
sized values.

Addresses issues #779 and #998.

This is just a clean-up of the code.  Generated code is exactly the
same.

Useful when need to call kw-receiving functions  without any keywords
from C, etc.

Also, implement for unix port.

This is more efficient, as allows to use register calling convention.
If needed, a structure pointer can be passed as argument to pass more
data.

This allows to implement KeyboardInterrupt on unix, and a much safer
ctrl-C in stmhal port.  First ctrl-C is a soft one, with hope that VM
will notice it; second ctrl-C is a hard one that kills anything (for
both unix and stmhal).

One needs to check for a pending exception in the VM only for jump
opcodes.  Others can't produce an infinite loop (infinite recursion is
caught by stack check).