Commit 7f416cc4 authored by John McCall's avatar John McCall
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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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