Auto merge of rust-lang#113166 - moulins:ref-niches-initial, r=oli-obk

Prototype: Add unstable `-Z reference-niches` option

MCP: rust-lang/compiler-team#641
Relevant RFC: rust-lang/rfcs#3204

This prototype adds a new `-Z reference-niches` option, controlling the range of valid bit-patterns for reference types (`&T` and `&mut T`), thereby enabling new enum niching opportunities. Like `-Z randomize-layout`, this setting is crate-local; as such, references to built-in types (primitives, tuples, ...) are not affected.

The possible settings are (here, `MAX` denotes the all-1 bit-pattern):
| `-Z reference-niches=` | Valid range |
|:---:|:---:|
| `null` (the default) | `1..=MAX` |
| `size` | `1..=(MAX- size)` |
| `align` | `align..=MAX.align_down_to(align)` |
| `size,align` | `align..=(MAX-size).align_down_to(align)` |

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This is very WIP, and I'm not sure the approach I've taken here is the best one, but stage 1 tests pass locally; I believe this is in a good enough state to unleash this upon unsuspecting 3rd-party code, and see what breaks.

Author: bors

src/type_of.rs

@@ -339,7 +339,8 @@ impl<'tcx> LayoutGccExt<'tcx> for TyAndLayout<'tcx> {
             return pointee;
         }
 
-        let result = Ty::ty_and_layout_pointee_info_at(*self, cx, offset);
+        let assume_valid_ptr = true;
+        let result = Ty::ty_and_layout_pointee_info_at(*self, cx, offset, assume_valid_ptr);
 
         cx.pointee_infos.borrow_mut().insert((self.ty, offset), result);
         result