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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
parent 58f11791af
commit b807d5970b
6 changed files with 4 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ impl AArch64InlineAsmRegClass {
match self {
Self::reg => types! { _: I8, I16, I32, I64, F32, F64; },
Self::vreg | Self::vreg_low16 => types! {
fp: I8, I16, I32, I64, F32, F64,
neon: I8, I16, I32, I64, F32, F64,
VecI8(8), VecI16(4), VecI32(2), VecI64(1), VecF32(2), VecF64(1),
VecI8(16), VecI16(8), VecI32(4), VecI64(2), VecF32(4), VecF64(2);
},