Add a crude facility for dealing with relative pointers.

C doesn't have any sort of built-in understanding of a pointer
relative to some arbitrary base address, but dynamic shared memory
segments can be mapped at different addresses in different processes,
so any sort of shared data structure stored within a dynamic shared
memory segment can't use absolute pointers.  We could use something
like Size to represent a relative pointer, but then the compiler
provides no type-checking.  Use stupid macro tricks to get some
type-checking.

Patch originally by me.  Concept suggested by Andres Freund.  Recently
resubmitted as part of Thomas Munro's work on dynamic shared memory
allocation.

Discussion: 20131205144434.GG12398@alap2.anarazel.de
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