[4.5:r99353] Discourage use of NEON on Cortex-A8

[Andrew Stubbs]

Related: lp:gcc-linaro/4.5,revno=99353

Discourage use of NEON on Cortex-A8

Merged from SourceryG++

[Andrew Stubbs (ams-codesourcery)]

Partial upstream submission here:
 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-04/msg00296.html

Remaining portions of patch still need attention.

[Andrew Stubbs (ams-codesourcery)]

Submitted upstream here: http://<email address hidden>/msg00576.html

[Andrew Stubbs (ams-codesourcery)]

Richard has approved the patch (for commit on stage 1), but with a few caveats. I'll see if I can address those next.

[Andrew Stubbs (ams-codesourcery)]

An updated patch has now been committed upstream.

A merge proposal to Linaro GCC 4.6 is here:
 https://code.launchpad.net/~ams-codesourcery/gcc-linaro/discourage-neon-on-a8/+merge/54856