Perform nil checks during object construction and within compiles()

Close https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/6494

compiler/sem.nim

@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ proc semStmtAndGenerateGenerics(c: PContext, n: PNode): PNode =
     result = buildEchoStmt(c, result)
   if c.config.cmd == cmdIdeTools:
     appendToModule(c.module, result)
-  trackTopLevelStmt(c, c.module, result)
+  trackStmt(c, c.module, result, isTopLevel = true)
 
 proc recoverContext(c: PContext) =
   # clean up in case of a semantic error: We clean up the stacks, etc. This is

compiler/semexprs.nim

@@ -2082,7 +2082,10 @@ proc tryExpr(c: PContext, n: PNode, flags: TExprFlags = {}): PNode =
   var err: string
   try:
     result = semExpr(c, n, flags)
-    if c.config.errorCounter != oldErrorCount: result = nil
+    if result != nil:
+      trackStmt(c, c.module, result, isTopLevel = false)
+    if c.config.errorCounter != oldErrorCount:
+      result = nil
   except ERecoverableError:
     discard
   # undo symbol table changes (as far as it's possible):

compiler/sempass2.nim

@@ -996,6 +996,7 @@ proc track(tracked: PEffects, n: PNode) =
         createTypeBoundOps(tracked, x[1].typ, n.info)
 
       if x.kind == nkExprColonExpr:
+        notNilCheck(tracked, x[1], x[0].sym.typ)
         checkForSink(tracked.config, tracked.owner, x[1])
       else:
         checkForSink(tracked.config, tracked.owner, x)
@@ -1260,7 +1261,7 @@ proc trackProc*(c: PContext; s: PSym, body: PNode) =
       dataflowAnalysis(s, body)
       when false: trackWrites(s, body)
 
-proc trackTopLevelStmt*(c: PContext; module: PSym; n: PNode) =
+proc trackStmt*(c: PContext; module: PSym; n: PNode, isTopLevel: bool) =
   if n.kind in {nkPragma, nkMacroDef, nkTemplateDef, nkProcDef, nkFuncDef,
                 nkTypeSection, nkConverterDef, nkMethodDef, nkIteratorDef}:
     return
@@ -1268,5 +1269,5 @@ proc trackTopLevelStmt*(c: PContext; module: PSym; n: PNode) =
   var effects = newNode(nkEffectList, n.info)
   var t: TEffects
   initEffects(g, effects, module, t, c)
-  t.isTopLevel = true
+  t.isTopLevel = isTopLevel
   track(t, n)