[llvm-c] Add C API methods to match size_t ConstantDataArray C++ API signatures (#84433) Adds `LLVMConstStringInContext2` and `LLVMConstString2`, which are identical to originals except that they use `size_t` for length. This is a clone of https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/35276f16e5a2cae0dfb49c0fbf874d4d2f177acc and is needed for https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/122000. As an aside, the issue of 32 bit overflow on constants is present in the C++ APIs as well. A few classes, e.g. `ConstantDataArray` and `ConstantAggregateZero`, can hold 64-bit ArrayTypes but their length accessors return 32-bit values. This means the same issue from the original Rust report is also present in LLVM itself. Would it be a reasonable goal to update all of these length methods & types to be uint64_t, or would that be too breaking? Alternatively, we could use safe fallible casts instead of implicit ones inside the accessors (if an overflow does happen, the solution would be to use `MyValue->getType()->getArrayNumElements()` instead).
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