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Implement From<Infallible> for all public error types

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Authored by Andrew Barnes

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Implement From<Infallible> for all public error types

Add From<Infallible> implementations for 31 public error types
across the consensus_encoding, primitives, and units crates. Each
impl is placed directly below its type declaration. For hidden
error types, the impl is placed below the inner type declaration.

Closes: #5767
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What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds standard Rust trait implementations that let the library's error types be automatically converted from an 'impossible' error type (Infallible). It is a routine API-ergonomics improvement with no security relevance: Infallible can never actually be produced at runtime, so these conversions can never be triggered by an attacker.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal API-quality commit.

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Why this scored 19/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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