Fixes to compile with most recent rust stable, as well as added features#87

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Commits on Dec 2, 2015

remove reference to std crate, as it causes a build error under most recent nightly build (see issue #78)
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remove the raw_pointer_derive lint, as it is has been deprecated in the most recent nightly build
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add helper functions to get the size of local and global memory on the device
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add another helper function to get the max size of an allocated memory object
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update the platform example to use more of the new device queries
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Commits on Feb 17, 2016

added local memory allocation
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Commits on Aug 14, 2016

remove deprecated use of StaticMutex in favor of lazy_static wrapper around normal std::sync::Mutex
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remove deprecated slice::bytes module use in favour of copy_from_slice
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