MVE does not have a simple sign extend instruction that can move elements across lanes. We currently often end up moving each lane into and out of a GPR, in order to get elements into the correct places. When we have a store of a trunc (or a extend of a load), we can instead just split the store/load in two, using the narrowing/widening load/store instructions from each half of the vector.
This does that for stores. It happens very early in a store combine, so as to easily detect the truncates. (It would be possible to do this later, but that would involve looking through a buildvector of extract elements. Not impossible but this way seemed simpler).
By enabling store combines we also get a vmovdrr combine for free, helping some other tests.
To make this function easier to read, how about extracting the truncating neon and non-truncating mve stuff out into their own functions?