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[FMV][AArch64] Remove features which expose non exploitable runtime b…
…ehavior. (#355) Feature `rpres` allows an increase in the precision of the single-precision floating-point reciprocal estimate and reciprocal square root estimate from an 8-bit mantissa to a 12-bit mantissa depending on the value FPCR.AH of the Floating-point Control Register. Similarly, `ebf16` allows existing floating-point instructions (BFDOT, BFMMLA, BFMOPA, BFMOPS, and BFVDOT) to change numeric behaviour depending on the value FPCR.EBF of the Floating-point Control Register. Feature `memtag3` allows Tag Check Faults to change behaviour depending on the value SCTLR_ELx.{TCF, TCF0} of the System Control Register. The runtime detection in FMV does not examine the content of control registers, therefore runtime dispatch cannot be based on that. One may argue there is value in altering the control register from a version, for example "msr dit, \#1" if the feature is available on hardware. The registers FPCR and SCTLR_ELx can be accessed in the absence of rpres, ebf16, and memtag3, making it hard to justify adding them to the compiler.
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