Consider the following function:
```
julia> function foo(a, b)
ntuple(i->(a+b; i), Val(4))
end
foo (generic function with 1 method)
```
(In particular note that the return type of the closure does not depend on the types
of `a` and b`). Unfortunately, prior to this change, inference was unable to determine
the return type in this situation:
```
julia> code_typed(foo, Tuple{Any, Any}, trace=true)
Refused to call generated function with non-concrete argument types ntuple(::getfield(Main, Symbol("##15#16")){_A,_B} where _B where _A, ::Val{4}) [GeneratedNotConcrete]
1-element Array{Any,1}:
CodeInfo(
1 ─ %1 = Main.:(##15#16)::Const(##15#16, false)
│ %2 = Core.typeof(a)::DataType
│ %3 = Core.typeof(b)::DataType
│ %4 = Core.apply_type(%1, %2, %3)::Type{##15#16{_A,_B}} where _B where _A
│ %5 = %new(%4, a, b)::##15#16{_A,_B} where _B where _A
│ %6 = Main.ntuple(%5, $(QuoteNode(Val{4}())))::Any
└── return %6
) => Any
```
Looking at the definition of ntuple
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/abb09f88804c4e74c752a66157e767c9b0f8945d/base/ntuple.jl#L45-L56
we see that it is a generated function an inference thus refuses to invoke it,
unless it can prove the concrete type of *all* arguments to the function. As
the above example illustrates, this restriction is more stringent than necessary.
It is true that we cannot invoke generated functions on arbitrary abstract
signatures (because we neither want to the user to have to be able to nor
do we trust that users are able to preverse monotonicity - i.e. that the return
type of the generated code will always be a subtype of the return type of a more
abstract signature).
However, if some piece of information is not used (the type of the passed function
in this case), there is no problem with calling the generated function (since
information that is unnused cannot possibly affect monotnicity).
This PR allows us to recognize pieces of information that are *syntactically* unused,
and call the generated functions, even if we do not have those pieces of information.
As a result, we are now able to infer the return type of the above function:
```
julia> code_typed(foo, Tuple{Any, Any})
1-element Array{Any,1}:
CodeInfo(
1 ─ %1 = Main.:(##3#4)::Const(##3#4, false)
│ %2 = Core.typeof(a)::DataType
│ %3 = Core.typeof(b)::DataType
│ %4 = Core.apply_type(%1, %2, %3)::Type{##3#4{_A,_B}} where _B where _A
│ %5 = %new(%4, a, b)::##3#4{_A,_B} where _B where _A
│ %6 = Main.ntuple(%5, $(QuoteNode(Val{4}())))::NTuple{4,Int64}
└── return %6
) => NTuple{4,Int64}
```
In particular, we use the new frontent `used` flags from the previous commit.
One additional complication is that we want to accesss these flags without
uncompressing the generator source, so we change the compression scheme to
place the flags at a known location.
Fixes #31004