Improve error message when shifting int by non-const #4653
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Fixes #4652. Note that besides changing the error I've also allowed the case when the right operand is
bit<N>
/int<N>
but it is also constant. This case should be allowed and it does actually work in most cases in practice, it is just covered by constant folding.BTW: I did not realize until now that the type checker actually does constant folding too! This will make any "small frontend" quite hard to do if it was to not do constant folding.