Currently we skip looking through truncates if the sign flag is used. But that's overly restrictive.
It's safe to look through the truncate as long as we ensure one of the 3 things when we shrink. Either the MSB of the mask at the shrunken size isn't set. If the mask bit is set then either the shrunk size needs to be equal to the compare size or the sign flag needs to be unused.
It looks like there are still missed opportunities to shrink a load and fold it in here.
Can you add the explanation in the summary to the comments please?