Support integer weights in hist and remove dtype limitations
#3298
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Fixes #3126.
As discussed in the linked issue, directly supporting all possible dtype combinations would require a very large number of template instantiations. With the change here I am converting to the common type of coord and edges, which avoid this. We thus have only
4*4+1*4 = 20cases. Otherwise it would be4*4*4+1*4 = 68.This adds
common_type, which may be useful for other applications. Maybe it would even be worth exposing to Python?Unrelated, I got a lot of compiler warnings about passing
std::string_viewby value, which apparently even made compilation fail with our current settings. I added references everywhere.