From https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2014/msg00113.html
By Richard Earnshaw at ARM
>
>GCC has for a number of years provides a set of pre-defined macros for
>use with determining the ISA and features of the target during
>pre-processing. However, the design was always somewhat cumbersome in
>that each new architecture revision created a new define and then
>removed the previous one. This meant that it was necessary to keep
>updating the support code simply to recognise a new architecture being
>added.
>
>The ACLE specification (ARM C Language Extentions)
>(http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.set.swdev/index.html)
>provides a much more suitable interface and GCC has supported this
>since gcc-4.8.
>
>This patch makes use of the ACLE pre-defines to map to the internal
>feature definitions. To support older versions of GCC a compatibility
>header is provided that maps the traditional pre-defines onto the new
>ACLE ones.
Stop using __FreeBSD_ARCH_armv6__ and switch to __ARM_ARCH >= 6 in the
couple of places in tree. clang already implements ACLE. Add a define
that says we implement version 1.1, even though the implementation
isn't quite complete.
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