[lldb][NativePDB] Use active bits for constant width (#196104) Static constants with bit widths less than 16 (e.g. char/unsigned char) in classes were not available. These constants are still encoded with 16 bits ([here](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/dd145eb8997878143f648a7601741f6409330963/llvm/lib/DebugInfo/CodeView/CodeViewRecordIO.cpp#L341-L343)) even though they only need less bits. When we tried to create an initializer for them, we'd check if the bit width (=16) was small enough to fit into the target (<16). This would fail. This was a problem in the following code: ```cpp struct Foo { // width(unsigned char) = 8, but 255 was encoded and read as 16 bit static constexpr unsigned char u8_max = 255; }; ``` This PR fixes the issue by using `APSInt::getActiveBits` for unsigned types and `APSInt::getSignificantBits` for signed types. They get the number of bits required to encode the value. For example a constant 64 would need 7 bits in unsigned and 8 bits in signed types.
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