Add error for overflowing nbits during PQ construction #3833
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Summary:
size_t expands to unsigned long int, so any left shift more than 31 means ksub overflows. So, we can add a check right before it is constructed in ProductQuantizer.
Ramil talked to Matthijs and the outcome is that 16 bits isn't really practical, but we can do the check for 24 to be safe.
Differential Revision: D62153881