Added NEON to the list of features required for the aarch64 family
Both floating-point and NEON are required in all standard ARMv8 implementations. Theoretically though specialized markets can support no NEON or floating-point at all. Source: https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0024/latest/aarch64-floating-point-and-neon On the other hand the base procedure call standard for Aarch64 "assumes the availability of the vector registers for passing floating-point and SIMD arguments". Further "the Arm 64-bit architecture defines two mandatory register banks: a general-purpose register bank which can be used for scalar integer processing and pointer arithmetic; and a SIMD and Floating-Point register bank". Source: https://developer.arm.com/docs/ihi0055/latest/procedure-call-standard-for-the-arm-64-bit-architecture This makes customization of Aarch64 with no NEON instruction set available so unlikely that we can consider them a feature of the generic family.
This commit is contained in:
		
				
					committed by
					
						
						Todd Gamblin
					
				
			
			
				
	
			
			
			
						parent
						
							77444dff10
						
					
				
				
					commit
					b07460ab5f
				
			@@ -904,6 +904,12 @@
 | 
			
		||||
      "any_of": [
 | 
			
		||||
        "sse4_2"
 | 
			
		||||
      ]
 | 
			
		||||
    },
 | 
			
		||||
    "neon": {
 | 
			
		||||
      "reason": "NEON is required in all standard ARMv8 implementations",
 | 
			
		||||
      "families": [
 | 
			
		||||
        "aarch64"
 | 
			
		||||
      ]
 | 
			
		||||
    }
 | 
			
		||||
  }
 | 
			
		||||
}
 | 
			
		||||
 
 | 
			
		||||
		Reference in New Issue
	
	Block a user