julia

b0ab29e9 - Ensure that BitArrays are inferrable for arbitrary `Integer` (#37082)

Ensure that BitArrays are inferrable for arbitrary `Integer` (#37082) BitArray operations are frequently performed with partial inference information (particularly from Pkg but others as well). Currently the internal operations are a source of invalidation for common arithmetic and bitwise operators. There seems to be no need to live with this, as all the inference problems are fixed by converting `Integer`s to `Int`s. This is done elsewhere already in BitArray code, so it only seems to be continuing a process that is already underway. Because of the multiplicity of methods `BitArray{N}(a::Any)` is not fully inferrable but there are at least limited victories, and the real benefits are in the elimination of instabilities in the internal operations.