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Reimplement protocol descriptors for Swift protocols as a kind of context descriptor, dropping the Objective-C protocol compatibility layout. The new protocol descriptors have several advantages over the current implementation: * They drop all of the unused fields required for layout-compatibility with Objective-C protocols. * They encode the full requirement signature of the protocol. This maintains more information about the protocol itself, including (e.g.) correctly encoding superclass requirements. * They fit within the general scheme of context descriptors, rather than being their own thing, which allows us to share more code with nominal type descriptors. * They only use relative pointers, so they’re smaller and can be placed in read-only memory Implements rdar://problem/38815359.