x86/APX: optimize {nf}-form IMUL-by-power-of-2 to SHL
..., for differing only in the resulting EFLAGS, which are left untouched anyway. That's a shorter encoding, available as long as certain constraints on operands are met; see code comments. (SHL-by-1 forms may then be subject to further optimization that was introduced earlier.) Note that kind of as a side effect this also converts multiplication by 1 to shift by 0, which is a plain move or even no-op anyway. That could be further shrunk (as could be presence of shifts/rotates by 0 in the original code as well as a fair set of other {nf}-form insns), yet the expectation (for now) is that people won't write such code in the first place.
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