[ARM,MVE] Revise immediate VBIC/VORR to look more like NEON.
Summary: In NEON, the immediate forms of VBIC and VORR are each represented as a single MC instruction, which takes its immediate operand already encoded in a NEON-friendly format: 8 data bits, plus some control bits indicating how to expand them into a full vector. In MVE, we represented immediate VBIC and VORR as four separate MC instructions each, for an 8-bit immediate shifted left by 0, 8, 16 or 24 bits. For each one, the value of the immediate operand is in the 'natural' form, i.e. the numerical value that would actually be BICed or ORRed into each vector lane (and also the same value shown in assembly). For example, MVE_VBICIZ16v4i32 takes an operand such as 0xab0000, which NEON would represent as 0xab | (control bits << 8). The MVE approach is superficially nice (it makes assembly input and output easy, and it's also nice if you're manually constructing immediate VBICs). But it turns out that it's better for isel if we make the NEON an...
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