As described on PR31712, we miss a variety of legalization combines because we lower these to X86ISD::VSEXT/VZEXT despite them having the same functionality. This patch makes 128-bit (SSE41) SIGN/ZERO_EXTEND_VECTOR_IN_REG ops legal, adds the necessary tablegen plumbing and uses a helper 'getExtendInVec' to decide when to use SIGN/ZERO_EXTEND_VECTOR_IN_REG or VSEXT/VZEXT.
We're missing a couple of shuffle combines that will be added in a future patch for review.
Later patches can then support the AVX2 cases as a mixture of SIGN/ZERO_EXTEND and SIGN/ZERO_EXTEND_VECTOR_IN_REG, and then finally deal with the AVX512 cases.