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fix(cpu): restore saved status for test and compare Rd=15 forms

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Restore CPSR from SPSR for ARM TST/TEQ/CMP/CMN with unused Rd=15 when the current mode has an SPSR. Preserve sequential PC and nominal timing; use normal ALU flags in User/System. Keep ordinary result-writing PC return validation unchanged.

Reproduced independent jsmolka/gba-tests ARM failure 234 before this fix. Original regressions cover flags, masks, bank restoration, operand forms, conditions, timing, and atomic errors. The public ROM progresses to a separate unsupported load/writeback alias at test 360; no full public-suite pass is claimed.
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@ -70,9 +70,17 @@ Entry selects ARM state, masks interrupt requests (`IRQ`), and branches to the e
FIQ entry also masks FIQ. Ordinary IRQ entry preserves the FIQ mask.
`MOVS pc, lr`, `SUBS pc, lr, #offset`, and `LDM` with S and PC restore CPSR from SPSR.
Return alignment follows the saved instruction state, not target bit zero.
User/System status returns fail because those modes have no SPSR.
Result-writing PC status returns fail in User/System modes because those modes have no SPSR.
An SPSR can contain invalid mode bits, but a return using those bits fails without changing CPU state.
ARM `TST`, `TEQ`, `CMP`, and `CMN` encodings with unused destination bits set to R15 restore CPSR when an SPSR exists.
These compare/status forms do not write the arithmetic result to PC. Execution continues at the next sequential address.
In User/System modes, they perform ordinary test/compare flag updates without a mode change.
Invalid saved modes still produce an atomic diagnostic. Failed conditions do not restore or validate status.
Nominal timing remains one sequential code access, plus an internal cycle for register-specified shifts; there is no refill cost.
This fixes the mode-switch expectation in public `jsmolka/gba-tests` ARM test 234 and agrees with mGBA's shared ALU flag handling.
The interpreter has no fetch pipeline; instruction-state-changing forms and exact pipeline behavior remain hardware-unverified.
Other S-bit block transfers access User registers while using the current mode's base register.
User-bank writeback, S-bit empty lists, and User-mode S-bit transfers return diagnostics.
These restrictions avoid unpredictable or unverified forms.

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@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ Hardware references used for the core:
- [GBATEK processor registers and modes](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-cpu-register-set.htm).
- [GBATEK status transfers](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-opcodes-psr-transfer-mrs-msr.htm).
- [GBATEK CPU exceptions](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-cpu-exceptions.htm).
- [GBATEK ARM data processing](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-opcodes-data-processing-alu.htm).
- [GBATEK ARM data processing](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-opcodes-data-processing-alu.htm), including R15/status notes. Its legacy `{P}` description alone does not establish ARM7 behavior.
- [mGBA ARM instruction implementation](https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/blob/master/src/arm/isa-arm.c), reviewed for Rd=15 test/compare SPSR restoration, User/System fallback, and no result write/refill.
- [jsmolka/gba-tests](https://github.com/jsmolka/gba-tests/tree/a7113b67e63f83a9b321696ddd7042ccfad6c881), pinned for independent ARM testing. Reviewed its MIT license, startup, result macros, compare/status tests, and load/writeback alias tests.
- [armwrestler-gba-fixed](https://github.com/destoer/armwrestler-gba-fixed) and [arm7wrestler](https://github.com/Arisotura/arm7wrestler), considered as test sources; not integrated.
- [SingleStepTests ARM7TDMI](https://github.com/SingleStepTests/ARM7TDMI), considered as an experimental, emulator-generated test source; not integrated.
- [GBATEK ARM single data transfers](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-opcodes-memory-single-data-transfer-ldr-str-pld.htm).
- [GBATEK memory alignment](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-cpu-memory-alignments.htm).
- [GBATEK multiply instructions](https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-arm-opcodes-multiply-and-multiply-accumulate-mul-mla.htm).