[clang-tidy] Add support for determining constness of more expressions. (#82617)
This uses a more systematic approach for determining whcich `DeclRefExpr`s mutate the underlying object: Instead of using a few matchers, we walk up the AST until we find a parent that we can prove cannot change the underlying object. This allows us to handle most address taking and dereference, bindings to value and const& variables, and track constness of pointee (see changes in DeclRefExprUtilsTest.cpp). This allows supporting more patterns in `performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization`. Those two patterns are relatively common: ``` const auto e = (*vector_ptr)[i] ``` and ``` const auto e = vector_ptr->at(i); ``` In our codebase, we have around 25% additional findings from `performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization` with this change. I did not see any additional false positives.
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