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Add a new function and generic operation to handle
bounds checking for slices. Unlike the index
bounds checking the index can be equal to the upper
bound.

Do gc-friendly slicing that generates proper code for
0-length result slices.

This is a takeover of Alexandru's original change,
(https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/12764/)
submittable now that the decompose phase is in.

Change-Id: I17d164cf42ed7839f84ca949c6ad3289269c9160
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13903

Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>