You can encode a shifted 12-bit immediate in a SUB instruction on ARM64.
We exploit this to avoid materializing the immediate.
This approach saves an instruction if it does not need to be
materialized in a register afterwards. Otherwise, we just materialize
it later and the total number of instructions stays the same.
Before:
0x52a00218 mov w24, #0x100000 ; =1048576
0xcb180379 sub x25, x27, x24
After:
0xd1440379 sub x25, x27, #0x100, lsl #12 ; =0x100000
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