This manifested as incorrect error messages from mpy-cross, like
```
$ mpy-cross doesnotexist.py
OSError: [Errno 2] cno such file/director
```
The remaining bits in `b` must be shifted to the correct position before
entering the loop.
For most (all?) actual builds, compress_max_length_bits was 8 and the
problem went unnoticed.
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