Add an IOManager API for scavenging TSO blocked_info
When the GC scavenges a TSO it needs to scavenge the tso->blocked_info but the blocked_info is a big union and what lives there depends on the two->why_blocked, which for I/O-related reasons is something that in principle is the responsibility of the I/O manager and not the GC. So the right thing to do is for the GC to ask the I/O manager to sscavenge the blocked_info if it encounters any I/O-related why_blocked reasons. So we add scavengeTSOIOManager in IOManager.{h,c} with the usual style. Now as it happens, right now, there is no special scavenging to do, so the implementation of scavengeTSOIOManager is a fancy no-op. That's because the select I/O manager uses only the fd and target members, which are not GC pointers, and the win32-legacy I/O manager _ought_ to be using GC-managed heap objects for the StgAsyncIOResult but it is actually usingthe C heap, so again no GC pointers. If the win32-legacy were doing this more sensibly, then scavengeTSOIOManager would be the right place to do the GC magic. Future I/O managers will need GC heap objects in the tso->blocked_info and will make use of this functionality.
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