Fold aarch64 feature +fp into +neon

Arm's FEAT_FP and Feat_AdvSIMD describe the same thing on AArch64:
The Neon unit, which handles both floating point and SIMD instructions.
Moreover, a configuration for AArch64 must include both or neither.
Arm says "entirely proprietary" toolchains may omit floating point:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102374/0101/Data-processing---floating-point
In the Programmer's Guide for Armv8-A, Arm says AArch64 can have
both FP and Neon or neither in custom implementations:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0024/a/AArch64-Floating-point-and-NEON

In "Bare metal boot code for Armv8-A", enabling Neon and FP
is just disabling the same trap flag:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dai0527/a

In an unlikely future where "Neon and FP" become unrelated,
we can add "[+-]fp" as its own feature flag.
Until then, we can simplify programming with Rust on AArch64 by
folding both into "[+-]neon", which is valid as it supersets both.

"[+-]neon" is retained for niche uses such as firmware, kernels,
"I just hate floats", and so on.
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Jubilee Young 2021-12-03 17:56:59 -08:00
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@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ pub fn to_llvm_features<'a>(sess: &Session, s: &'a str) -> SmallVec<[&'a str; 2]
("x86", "avx512vaes") => smallvec!["vaes"],
("x86", "avx512gfni") => smallvec!["gfni"],
("x86", "avx512vpclmulqdq") => smallvec!["vpclmulqdq"],
("aarch64", "fp") => smallvec!["fp-armv8"],
("aarch64", "rcpc2") => smallvec!["rcpc-immo"],
("aarch64", "dpb") => smallvec!["ccpp"],
("aarch64", "dpb2") => smallvec!["ccdp"],