This is less about improved type checking than enabling a
subsequent change to the representation of labels.
Backports commit bec1631100323fac0900aea71043d5c4e22fc2fa from qemu
This is improved type checking for the translators -- it's no longer
possible to accidentally swap arguments to the branch functions.
Note that the code generating backends still manipulate labels as int.
With notable exceptions, the scope of the change is just a few lines
for each target, so it's not worth building extra machinery to do this
change in per-target increments.
Backports commit 42a268c241183877192c376d03bd9b6d527407c7 from qemu