aarch64: allow adding/removing just feature flags via .arch Rather than requiring to always also set/change the base architecture, allow that part to be omitted, making it possible to en-/disabled and then dis-/enable again just certain of the architecture extensions. Supporting the same for .cpu seemed questionable to me, so is not being done here. gas/ 2014-10-20 Jan Beulich * config/tc-aarch64.c (s_aarch64_arch): . --- a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c +++ b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c @@ -7611,6 +7611,21 @@ s_aarch64_arch (int ignored ATTRIBUTE_UN else optlen = strlen (name); + if ( ext == name ) + { + aarch64_feature_set extra = cpu_variant; + + mcpu_cpu_opt = &extra; + if (!aarch64_parse_features (ext, &mcpu_cpu_opt)) + return; + + cpu_variant = *mcpu_cpu_opt; + + *input_line_pointer = saved_char; + demand_empty_rest_of_line (); + return; + } + /* Skip the first "all" entry. */ for (opt = aarch64_archs + 1; opt->name != NULL; opt++) if (strlen (opt->name) == optlen