gccrs: Add support for binding const generic values to paths #4253
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Const generics bind values which can be accessed like a normal path but the difference is that they can be true expression values not just type paths. This patch adds support to resolving a method inference which passes a generic value into the method and fixes some missed bugs along the way. The tricky part was that there is a case where in the return position of a method returning a const param type vs the type of the method there is a special case in the unify rules so that we unify the specified type of the const param type not the const param itself.
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