py/asmxtensa: Extend BCC range to 18 bits.

This commit lets the native emitter backend extends the range of the
BCC family of opcodes (BALL, BANY, BBC, BBS, BEQ, BGE, BGEU, BLT,
BLTU, BNALL, BNE, BNONE) from 8 bits to 18 bits.

The test suite contains some test files that, when compiled into native
code, would require BCC jumps outside the (signed) 8 bits range.  In
this case either the MicroPython interpreter or mpy-cross would raise an
exception, not running the test when using the "--via-mpy --emit native"
command line options with the test runner.

This comes with a 3 bytes penalty on each forward jump, bringing the
footprint of those jumps to 6 bytes each, as a longer opcode sequence
has to be emitted to let jumps access a larger range.  However, this is
slightly offset by the fact that backward jumps can be emitted with a
single opcode if the range is small enough (8-bits offset).

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Gatti <a.gatti@frob.it>

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