tools/clang/codesearch: migrate dyn_cast to dyn_cast_if_present #6700
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In LLVM 16+ dyn_cast is no longer null-safe and hence leads to crashes. This commit switches it to dyn_cast_if_null.
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In LLVM 16+ dyn_cast is no longer null-safe and hence leads to crashes. This commit switches it to dyn_cast_if_null. For backward compatibility, in LLVM < 16 we switch to dyn_cast_or_null.