Extended side effect error messages (#18418)

* Extended side effect error messages

* Applied feedback:
- refactored `markSideEffect`
- refactored string interpolations
- single message
- skip diagnostics in `system.compiles` context

Other:
- started a test of diagnostic messages

[ci skip] Tests aren't updated yet because messaging isn't nailed down.

* - Added hints of where for side effect call locations.
- Tried to clarify the reasons.

* fix tests

* Applied PR review feedback:
  - moved collection of side effects from TSym to TContext
  - used pragma shorthand form `.sideEffect` and `.noSideEffect` in messages
  - added leading '>' to structured messages for readability
  - changed `sempass2.markSideEffect` to a proc
  - replaced `system.echo` in the test to make the test compatible with Windows

* Applied NEP1 formatting suggestion

Co-authored-by: quantimnot <quantimnot@users.noreply.github.com>
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discard """
nimoutFull: true
action: "reject"
cmd: "nim r --hint:Conf:off $file"
nimout: '''
tdiagnostic_messages.nim(36, 6) Error: 'a' can have side effects
> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(37, 30) Hint: 'a' calls `.sideEffect` 'callWithSideEffects'
>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(29, 6) Hint: 'callWithSideEffects' called by 'a'
>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(31, 34) Hint: 'callWithSideEffects' calls `.sideEffect` 'indirectCallViaVarParam'
>>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(25, 6) Hint: 'indirectCallViaVarParam' called by 'callWithSideEffects'
>>>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(26, 7) Hint: 'indirectCallViaVarParam' calls routine via hidden pointer indirection
>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(32, 33) Hint: 'callWithSideEffects' calls `.sideEffect` 'indirectCallViaPointer'
>>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(27, 6) Hint: 'indirectCallViaPointer' called by 'callWithSideEffects'
>>>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(28, 32) Hint: 'indirectCallViaPointer' calls routine via pointer indirection
>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(33, 10) Hint: 'callWithSideEffects' calls `.sideEffect` 'myEcho'
>>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(24, 6) Hint: 'myEcho' called by 'callWithSideEffects'
>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(34, 3) Hint: 'callWithSideEffects' accesses global state 'globalVar'
>>>> tdiagnostic_messages.nim(23, 5) Hint: 'globalVar' accessed by 'callWithSideEffects'
'''
"""
var globalVar = 0
proc myEcho(a: string) {.sideEffect.} = discard
proc indirectCallViaVarParam(call: var proc(): int {.nimcall.}): int =
call()
proc indirectCallViaPointer(call: pointer): int =
cast[ptr proc(): int](call)[]()
proc callWithSideEffects(): int =
var p = proc (): int {.nimcall.} = 0
discard indirectCallViaVarParam(p)
discard indirectCallViaPointer(addr p)
myEcho ""
globalVar
func a: int =
discard callWithSideEffects()