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Unify GOSTART and GOSUB
GOSTART is a special case of GOSUB, we can remove a lot of offset twiddling,
and other special casing by unifying them, at pretty much no cost.
GOSUB has 2 arguments, ARG() and ARG2L(), which are interpreted as
a U32 and an I32 respectively. ARG() holds the "parno" we will recurse
into. ARG2L() holds a signed offset to the relevant start node for the
recursion.
Prior to this patch the argument to GOSUB would always be >=, and unlike
other parts of our logic we would not use 0 to represent "start/end" of
pattern, as GOSTART would be used for "recurse to beginning of pattern",
after this patch we use 0 to represent "start/end", and a lot of
complexity "goes away" along with GOSTART regops.