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Richard Smith
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This allows us to capture the location at which a type literal was used, even in the cases where we don't otherwise need to create a new instruction to represent the type such as for `char` or `str`. The logic used to build the underlying type is now marked as desugaring. For cases such as `iN`, this causes the call to `Core.Int` to no longer be added as a dedicated IR instruction, and instead its constant value is used directly as the value of the `type_literal`. This results in this being on balance a reduction in the size of the IR. This also fixes a crash in C++ interop when using a `char` literal as a template argument. The crash was caused by the template argument not having an associated location when mapping to a C++ location. See changes to check/testdata/interop/cpp/template/type_param.carbon for an example that used to crash before this change. Update alias handling to allow an alias to point at any type literal, reinstating support for aliases for type literals such as `bool` and `i32` that had previously worked but stopped working when we transitioned those types to being defined in the prelude. See changes to toolchain/check/testdata/alias/builtins.carbon. All the test changes other than the two mentioned above are mechanical autoupdate changes switching to the new instruction.