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NEWS: arm: note that FPA support has been removed
authorRichard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
Tue, 4 Jun 2024 11:56:28 +0000 (12:56 +0100)
committerRichard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
Wed, 5 Jun 2024 16:45:45 +0000 (17:45 +0100)
binutils/NEWS

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   removed.  The CPU name ep9312 is still recognized, but treated as an alias
   for arm920t.
 
+* Support for the FPA co-procossor on Arm has been removed.  In cases where a
+  legacy CPU previously defaulted to using this instruction set extension, the
+  assembler now defaults to no-FPU to avoid quietly misassembling legacy code.
+
 Changes in 2.42:
 
 * The objdump program has a new command line option -Z/--decompress which