runtime: fix softfloat64 add/sub for normal operands cancelling to subnormal

When fadd64/fsub64 cancel two near-equal, opposite-sign normal operands
into a subnormal result, fpack64 is handed a mantissa far below
1<<mantbits64 while exp is still a normal-range exponent. fpack64 saved
mant0/exp0/trunc0 before its normalization loop, so the denormal branch
restored an un-normalized mantissa and right-shifted it to align to the
subnormal exponent (the wrong direction here), returning the
un-normalized cancellation mantissa at the wrong scale instead of the
correctly rounded subnormal.

Save mant0/exp0/trunc0 after the normalization loop so the denormal path
restores a normalized mantissa and aligns correctly. This is a no-op for
callers that already pass a normalized mantissa (fmul64, fdiv64,
conversions). fpack32 is updated identically for parity, though its
denormal branch is not reachable with an un-normalized mantissa through
any current caller.

This only manifests on softfloat targets (e.g. GOMIPS=softfloat), which
is why it has gone unnoticed on hardware-float platforms. A randomized
differential check against hardware found the previous code wrong on
>50% of normal pairs that cancel into a subnormal; with this change
those cases match hardware.

Fixes #79964

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