[binutils-gdb] NEWS: arm: note that FPA support has been removed

[Richard Earnshaw]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ecc5fed79101ba6af6ddc6e629e2d8d93c36065b

commit ecc5fed79101ba6af6ddc6e629e2d8d93c36065b
Author: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 4 12:56:28 2024 +0100

    NEWS: arm: note that FPA support has been removed

Diff:
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 binutils/NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 756a29d1292..c4739386cb2 100644
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
   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