add COPY_ARRAY

Add COPY_ARRAY, a safe and convenient helper for copying arrays,
complementing ALLOC_ARRAY and REALLOC_ARRAY.  Users just specify source,
destination and the number of elements; the size of an element is
inferred automatically.

It checks if the multiplication of size and element count overflows.
The inferred size is passed first to st_mult, which allows the division
there to be done at compilation time.

As a basic type safety check it makes sure the sizes of source and
destination elements are the same.  That's evaluated at compilation time
as well.

COPY_ARRAY is safe to use with NULL as source pointer iff 0 elements are
to be copied.  That convention is used in some cases for initializing
arrays.  Raw memcpy(3) does not support it -- compilers are allowed to
assume that only valid pointers are passed to it and can optimize away
NULL checks after such a call.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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