propagate context into overloads [perl #47119]

amagic_call now does its best to propagate the operator's context into
the overload callback. It's not always possible - for instance,
dereferencing and stringify/boolify/numify always have to return a
value, even if it's not used, due to the way the overload callback works
in those cases - but the majority of cases should now work. In
particular, overloading <> to handle list context properly is now
possible.

For backcompat reasons (amagic_call and friends are technically public
api functions), list context will not be propagated unless specifically
requested via the AMGf_want_list flag. If this is passed, and the
operator is called in list context, amagic_call returns an AV* holding
all of the returned values instead of an SV*. Void context always
results in amagic_call returning &PL_sv_undef.

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