[FEA]: [cccl.c] Enable iterators to be used as the begin and end offsets in segmented_sort
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### Area
cuda.compute (Python)
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In cccl.c, using iterators such as the step counting iterator instead of device arrays as the begin and end segment offsets in `segmented_sort` does not work currently. Enabling this use case would save a lot of device memory.
This does not work currently because we need to have a host class in cccl.c to hold the state of the iterator that the user passes. When that state is a pointer, this works fine, since `selector_state_t` holds one pointer for each of begin and end offsets. However, the user could pass an iterator that can be any size, such as a step counting iterator which contains an id and segment size members.
### Describe the solution you'd like
In order to support this, one option is to malloc a buffer of some specific size and memcpy the state of the caller's iterator to this buffer.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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