Started work on an undefined literal removal pass for the ocaml

backed.

Ocaml doesn't support undefined values, so we need a way to remove
them from the specification in order to generate good ocaml
code. There are more subtle issues to - like if we initialize a
mutable variable with an undefined list, then the ocaml runtime has no
way of telling what it's length should be (as this information is
removed by the simple_types pass).

We therefore rewrite undefined literals with calls to functions that
create undefined types, e.g.

(bool) undefined becomes undefined_bool ()

(vector<'n,'m,dec,bit>) undefined becomes undefined_vector(sizeof 'n, sizeof 'm, undefined_bit ())

We therefore have to generate undefined_X functions for any user
defined datatype X. initial_check seems to be the logical place for
this. This is straightforward provided the user defined types are
not-recursive (and it shouldn't be too bad even if they are).

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