This is needed in order to run light analysis mode tests for JVM IR
backend. In the subsequent commit, this extension is added to light
analysis mode tests.
Kapt stub generation uses this extension to transform local types to
non-local:
private val x = object {}
With this extension, x's type will be `Any`. Without it, it will be an
anonymous type. This anonymous type was not a problem for the old JVM
backend, but it's difficult to translate it in the IR infrastructure in
the light analysis mode where bodies are not resolved.
When kapt stub generation works with JVM IR enabled,
KaptAnonymousTypeTransformer ensured that backend would not crash and
stubs would contain something useful.
However, this is not happening in light analysis mode tests, which are
supposed to check how compiler behaves in the light analysis mode which
is used in kapt.
Alexander Udalov
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