Note for self: there's theoritically support for a NT_GNU_HWCAP section
(.note.gnu.hwcaps ELF section), but I don't think ld/as have any support
for setting it in the binaries they output; in fact looking at SSE2
hwcap-selected binaries on my i386 system and at hwcap-selected binaries
on my armel system, I couldn't find any such section in the ELF files.
Despite this absence, "hwcap:" flags are computed by glibc on the basis
of the pathname alone (e.g. /lib/vfp/foo.so => vfp hwcap).

That's why there's no need to patch the ELF parser to pickup NEON
binaries for the above changes.

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NEON and THUMBEE hwcaps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343602
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