[OCaml] Rework Llvm_executionengine using ctypes.
Since JIT->MCJIT migration, most of the ExecutionEngine interface became deprecated and/or broken. This especially affected the OCaml bindings, as runFunction is no longer available, and unlike in C, it is not possible to coerce a pointer to a function and call it in OCaml. In practice, LLVM 3.5 shipped completely unusable Llvm_executionengine. The GenericValue interface and runFunction were essentially a poor man's FFI. As such, this interface was removed and instead a dependency on ctypes >=0.3 added, which handled platform-specific aspects of accessing data and calling functions. The new interface does not expose JIT (which is a shim around MCJIT), as well as the interpreter (which can't handle a lot of valid IR). Llvm_executionengine.add_global_mapping is currently unusable due to PR20656. llvm-svn: 220957
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