Use 64-bit integers to represent discriminants #8744
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This is in preparation for making discriminants not always be int (#1647), but it also makes compiles for a 64-bit target not behave differently — with respect to how many bits of discriminants are preserved — depending on the build host's word size, which is a nice property to have.
We may want to standardize how to abbreviate "discriminant" in a followup change.