Fixes #5738 (#6059)

tests/async/tasync_gcsafe.nim

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+discard """
+  cmd: "nim c --threads:on $file"
+  output: '''
+1
+2
+3
+'''
+"""
+
+assert compileOption("threads"), "this test will not do anything useful without --threads:on"
+
+import asyncdispatch
+
+var globalDummy: ref int
+proc gcUnsafeProc() =
+    if not globalDummy.isNil:
+        echo globalDummy[]
+    echo "1"
+
+proc gcSafeAsyncProcWithNoAnnotation() {.async.} =
+    echo "2"
+
+proc gcSafeAsyncProcWithAnnotation() {.gcsafe, async.} =
+    echo "3"
+
+proc gcUnsafeAsyncProc() {.async.} =
+    # We should be able to call gcUnsafe
+    gcUnsafeProc()
+
+    # We should be able to call async implicitly gcsafe
+    await gcSafeAsyncProcWithNoAnnotation()
+
+    # We should be able to call async explicitly gcsafe
+    await gcSafeAsyncProcWithAnnotation()
+
+waitFor gcUnsafeAsyncProc()

tests/async/tasync_gcunsafe.nim

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+discard """
+  cmd: "nim c --threads:on $file"
+  file: "asyncmacro.nim"
+  errormsg: "'anotherGCSafeAsyncProcIter' is not GC-safe as it calls 'asyncGCUnsafeProc'"
+"""
+
+assert compileOption("threads"), "this test will not do anything useful without --threads:on"
+
+import asyncdispatch
+
+var globalDummy: ref int
+proc gcUnsafeProc() =
+    if not globalDummy.isNil:
+        echo globalDummy[]
+
+proc asyncExplicitlyGCSafeProc() {.gcsafe, async.} =
+    echo "hi"
+
+proc asyncImplicitlyGCSafeProc() {.async.} =
+    echo "hi"
+
+proc asyncGCUnsafeProc() {.async.} =
+    gcUnsafeProc()
+
+proc anotherGCSafeAsyncProc() {.async, gcsafe.} =
+    # We should be able to call other gcsafe procs
+    await asyncExplicitlyGCSafeProc()
+    await asyncImplicitlyGCSafeProc()
+    # But we can't call gcunsafe procs
+    await asyncGCUnsafeProc()