Compute and preserve alignment more faithfully in IR-generation.
Introduce an Address type to bundle a pointer value with an alignment. Introduce APIs on CGBuilderTy to work with Address values. Change core APIs on CGF/CGM to traffic in Address where appropriate. Require alignments to be non-zero. Update a ton of code to compute and propagate alignment information. As part of this, I've promoted CGBuiltin's EmitPointerWithAlignment helper function to CGF and made use of it in a number of places in the expression emitter. The end result is that we should now be significantly more correct when performing operations on objects that are locally known to be under-aligned. Since alignment is not reliably tracked in the type system, there are inherent limits to this, but at least we are no longer confused by standard operations like derived-to-base conversions and array-to-pointer decay. I've also fixed a large number of bugs where we were applying the complete-object alignment to a pointer instead of th...
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