[NFC] Add HeapType::getKind returning a new HeapTypeKind enum (#6804)

The HeapType API has functions like `isBasic()`, `isStruct()`,
`isSignature()`, etc. to test the classification of a heap type. Many
users have to call these functions in sequence and handle all or most of
the possible classifications. When we add a new kind of heap type,
finding and updating all these sites is a manual and error-prone
process.

To make adding new heap type kinds easier, introduce a new API that
returns an enum classifying the heap type. The enum can be used in
switch statements and the compiler's exhaustiveness checker will flag
use sites that need to be updated when we add a new kind of heap type.

This commit uses the new enum internally in the type system, but
follow-on commits will add new uses and convert uses of the existing
APIs to use `getKind` instead.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/passes/Precompute.cpp b/src/passes/Precompute.cpp
index ba04a68aa..48977dd78 100644
--- a/src/passes/Precompute.cpp
+++ b/src/passes/Precompute.cpp
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ private:
       return true;
     }
     // We can emit a StringConst for a string constant.
-    if (type.isString()) {
+    if (type.isRef() && type.getHeapType().isMaybeShared(HeapType::string)) {
       return true;
     }
     // All other reference types cannot be precomputed. Even an immutable GC