[flang] Add new warnings for unused & undefined locals (#173504) Add a requested warning for completely unused local variables. The implementation runs a scan over typed expressions during the existing expression semantics pass to detect variable uses, and a routine at the end of semantics to take a pass over the symbol tables to find unused locals. The new infrastructure needed to detect variable uses, and the existing infrastructure that detects potential variable definitions, then makes it easy to detect variables that are used without any possible initialization or definition, so I did that too. The warning for unused locals is off by default -- they might indicate a misspelling (that IMPLICIT NONE would have caught), but seem otherwise generally benign. The warning for uses of completely uninitialized and undefined variables, however, is enabled by default, since that's likely to indicate a program bug that should be investigated. This patch touches a lot of files lightly. Many of these files are tests that would have produced needless warning noise; one new test was added. Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/173276.
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