This patch extends the pattern-matching capability of vector-splatted
constants. When illegally-typed constants are legalized they are
canonically sign-extended to XLenVT. This preserves the sign and allows
us to match simm5. If they were zero-extended for whatever reason we'd
lose that ability: e.g. (i8 -1) -> (XLenVT 255) would not be matched
under the current logic.
To address this we first manually sign-extend the splatted constant from
the vector element type to int64_t. This preserves the semantics while
removing any implicitly-truncated bits.
The corresponding logic for uimm5 was not updated, the rationale being
that neither sign- nor zero-extending a legal uimm5 immediate should
change that (unless we expect actual "garbage" upper bits).
Can we use SignExtend64 from MathExtras.h here?