[analyzer] Improve handling of placement new in `PointerArith` (#155855) This pull improves the handling of placement new in`PointerArith`, fixing one family of false positives, and one of negatives: ### False Positives ```cpp Buffer buffer; int* array = new (&buffer) int[10]; ++array; // there should be no warning ``` The code above should flag the memory region `buffer` as reinterpreted, very much as `reinterpret_cast` would do. Note that in this particular case the placement new is inlined so the engine can track that `*array` points to the same region as `buffer`. This is no-op if the placement new is opaque. ### False Negatives ```cpp Buffer buffer; int* array = new (&buffer) int; ++array; // there should be a warning ``` In this case, there is an implicit cast to `void*` when calling placement new. The memory region was marked as reinterpreted, and therefore later pointer arithmetic will not raise. I have added a condition to not consider a cast to `void*` as a reinterpretation, as an array of voids does not make much sense. There are still some limitations, of course. For starters, if a single `int` is created in place of an array of `unsigned char` of exactly the same size, it will still be considered as an array. A convoluted example to make the point that I think it makes sense *not* to raise in this situation is in the test `checkPlacementNewSlices`. CPP-6868
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