On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [email protected] (Niels Möller) writes:
>
> > ...
> The reference manual says
>
> Armv8 can support the following levels of support for Advanced SIMD and
> floating-point instructions:
>
> *    Full SIMD and floating-point support without exception trapping.
>
> *    Full SIMD and floating-point support with exception trapping.
>
> *    No floating-point or SIMD support. This option is licensed only for
>      implementations targeting specialized markets.
>
> As far as I understand, that means Neon should be always available, in
> both 32-bit and 64-bit mode.

NEON is called ASIMD under ARMv8. It is part of the base machine, like
SSE2 is part of x86_64.

Jeff
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