cmd/internal/gc: extend escape analysis to pointers in slices

Modified esc.go to allow slice literals (before append)
to be non-escaping.  Modified tests to account for changes
in escape behavior and to also test the two cases that
were previously not tested.

Also minor cleanups to debug-printing within esc.go

Allocation stats for running compiler
( cd src/html/template;
  for i in {1..5} ; do
     go tool 6g -memprofile=testzz.${i}.prof  -memprofilerate=1 *.go ;
     go tool pprof -alloc_objects -text  testzz.${i}.prof ;
     done ; )
before about 86k allocations
after  about 83k allocations

Fixes #8972

Change-Id: Ib61dd70dc74adb40d6f6fdda6eaa4bf7d83481de
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10118
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
4 files changed
tree: 0f47567dddaaca8cbbf060a99eaa24c519fd5117
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