Rollup merge of #72270 - RalfJung:lint-ref-to-packed, r=oli-obk

add a lint against references to packed fields

Creating a reference to an insufficiently aligned packed field is UB and should be disallowed, both inside and outside of `unsafe` blocks. However, currently there is no stable alternative (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/64490) so all we do right now is have a future incompatibility warning when doing this outside `unsafe` (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46043).

This adds an allow-by-default lint. @retep998 suggested this can help early adopters avoid issues. It also means we can then do a crater run where this is deny-by-default as suggested by @joshtriplett.

I guess the main thing to bikeshed is the lint name. I am not particularly happy with "packed_references" as it sounds like the packed field has reference type. I chose this because it is similar to "safe_packed_borrows". What about "reference_to_packed" or "unaligned_reference" or so?

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