Andrew Kelley c8fb36b36c stage2: LLVM backend: implement @tagName for enums ...

Introduced a new AIR instruction: `tag_name`. Reasons to do this
instead of lowering it in Sema to a switch, function call, array
lookup, or if-else tower:
 * Sema is a bottleneck; do less work in Sema whenever possible.
 * If any optimization passes run, and the operand to becomes
   comptime-known, then it could change to have a comptime result
   value instead of lowering to a function or array or something which
   would then have to be garbage-collected.
 * Backends may want to choose to use a function and a switch branch,
   or they may want to use a different strategy.

Codegen for `@tagName` is implemented for the LLVM backend but not any
others yet.

Introduced some new `Type` tags:
 * `const_slice_u8_sentinel_0`
 * `manyptr_const_u8_sentinel_0`

The motivation for this was to make typeof() on the tag_name AIR
instruction non-allocating.

A bunch more enum tests are passing now.

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bindings.zig

stage2: LLVM backend: implement @tagName for enums

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