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ACLE 2026 Q1
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
- Arm Neon Intrinsics Reference.
List of changes
- Added support for modal 8-bit floating point matrix multiply-accumulate widening intrinsics.
- Added support for 16-bit floating point matrix multiply-accumulate widening intrinsics.
- Added restrictions of Function Multi Versioning’s use with other extensions.
- Upgraded Function Multi Versioning to Release support level.
- Removed _single from svmla_za16[_mf8]_vg2x1_fpm and svmla_za32[_mf8]_vg4x1_fpm.
- Improved documentation for VMLA/VMLS intrinsics for floats.
- Added support for producer-consumer data placement hints.
- Added support for range prefetch intrinsic and __ARM_PREFETCH_RANGE macro.
- Added Alpha support for SVE2.2 (FEAT_SVE2p2)
- Added Alpha support for SME2.2 (FEAT_SME2p2).
- Added Alpha support for FEAT_SVE_AES2, FEAT_SSVE_AES intrinsics.
- Added support for FEAT_FPRCVT intrinsics and __ARM_FEATURE_FPRCVT.
- Removed all references to Transactional Memory Extension (TME).
- Added Alpha support for Brain 16-bit floating-point vector multiplication intrinsics.
- Redesigned atomic store with hints intrinsics.
ACLE 2025 Q3
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
List of changes
- Added feature test macro for FEAT_SSVE_FEXPA.
- Added feature test macro for FEAT_CSSC.
- Added Function Multi Versioning feature priority syntax.
ACLE 2025 Q2
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
- Arm Neon Intrinsics Reference.
List of changes
- Changed the Function Multi Versioning default version rules to be more explicit.
- Added Alpha support for structured sparsity outer product intrinsics.
- Added Alpha support for quarter-tile outer product intrinsics.
- Removed the priority column from the mapping tables of Function Multi Versioning.
- Added Function Multi Versioning feature cssc.
- Added feature test macro for FEAT_SSVE_BitPerm.
- Upgrade to Beta support for modal 8-bit floating point intrinsics.
ACLE 2024 Q4
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
- Arm Neon Intrinsics Reference.
List of changes
- Unified Function Multi Versioning features ssbs and ssbs2.
- Unified Function Multi Versioning features memtag and memtag2.
- Unified Function Multi Versioning features aes and pmull.
- Unified Function Multi Versioning features sve2-aes and sve2-pmull128.
- Removed Function Multi Versioning features sve-bf16, sve-ebf16, and sve-i8mm.
- Removed Function Multi Versioning features ebf16, memtag3, and rpres.
- Removed Function Multi Versioning feature dgh.
- Removed Function Multi Versioning features ls64 and predres.
- Document Function Multi Versioning feature dependencies.
- Clarify Function Multi Versioning feature dependency rule.
- Simplified Function Multi Versioning version selection rules.
- Fixed range of operand
o0(too small) in AArch64 system register designations. - Fixed SVE2.1 quadword gather load/scatter store intrinsics.
- Removed unnecessary Zd argument from
svcvtnb_mf8[_f32_x2]_fpm. - Changed name mangling of function types to include SME attributes.
- Changed
__ARM_NEON_SVE_BRIDGEto refer to the availability of thearm_neon_sve_bridge.hheader file, rather than the NEON-SVE bridge intrinsics. - Removed extraneous
constfrom SVE2.1 store intrinsics. - Added
__arm_agnostickeyword attribute. - Refined function versioning scope and signature rules to use the default version scope and signature.
- Added
_nforms of the SVE2p1 and SME2svdotintrinsics. - Changed the status of the SME2p1 from Alpha to Beta.
- Changed the status of the SVE2p1 from Alpha to Beta.
- Added mf8 variants of SME 2.1 intrinsics.
- Added
svdot[_n_f16_mf8]_fpmandsvdot[_n_f32_mf8]_fpm. - Added Guarded Control Stack (GCS) at Beta quality level.
ACLE 2024 Q3
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
- Arm Neon Intrinsics Reference.
List of changes
- Fixed incorrect system register dependencies in Function Multi Versioning.
- Added a requirement for function version declaration in Function Multi Versioning.
- Added
__FUNCTION_MULTI_VERSIONING_SUPPORT_LEVELto indicate the support level of the Function Multi
Versioning. - Unified Function Multi Versioning features sha1 and sha2.
- Unified Function Multi Versioning features ls64, ls64_v, and ls64_accdata.
- Added Alpha support for SME2.1 (FEAT_SME2p1).
- Removed requirement to add preprocessor guards for header files.
- Added specifications for floating-point absolute minimum and maximum intrinsics (FEAT_FAMINMAX).
- Added specifications for table lookup intrinsics (FEAT_LUT, FEAT_SME_LUTv2).
- Added Release support level for the Custom Datapath Extension.
- Added Alpha support for modal 8-bit floating point intrinsics.
- Fixed the range of the lane immediate argument for
vst2q_lane_f64.
ACLE 2024 Q2
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
- Arm®v8-M Security Extensions Requirements on Development Tools.
List of changes
- Added new content for the handling of arguments in CMSE Entry functions and return values of CMSE Nonsecure calls in order to address security issues.
- Added Alpha support for SVE2.1 (FEAT_SVE2p1).
ACLE 2024 Q1
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
List of changes
- Changed the definition of the
__ARM_ACLEmacro to reflect the current versioning scheme. - Added
__ARM_ACLE_VERSIONto express a given ACLE version. - Combined the SME
slice_baseandslice_offsetarguments into a singlesliceargument. - Added the Keyword attributes section.
- Changed the SME language extensions to use keyword attributes instead of GNU-style attributes.
- Added description of SVE reinterpret intrinsics.
- Changes and fixes for Function Multi Versioning:
- Changed the mangling rules, such that feature names are appended in lexicographic order, not in priority order.
- Mangled names contain a unique set of features (no duplicates).
- Added MOPS.
- Changed name mangling of the default version.
- Aligned priorities to account for feature dependencies.
- Introduced alternative names (aliases)
rdmaforrdm. - Corrected FEAT_BTI feature register value.
- Introduced the
__ARM_FEATURE_PAUTH_LRfeature macro in section Pointer Authentication to indicate target support for the Armv9.5-A PAC Enhancements. - Introduced a new value to the
__ARM_FEATURE_PAC_DEFAULTmacro to indicate the use of PC as a diversifier for Pointer Authentication. - Added a State management section, replacing the
__arm_shared_za,__arm_new_za, and__arm_preserves_zaattributes in the previous Alpha SME spec. - Changed the status of the SME ACLE from Alpha to Beta.
ACLE 2023 Q2
Release highlights
The documents modified in this release are:
- Arm C Language Extensions.
- Arm Neon Intrinsics Reference.
- Armv8-M Security Extensions Requirements on Development Tools.
List of changes
- Added SLC as a valid Cache Level for the Memory prefetch intrinsics.
- Added support for 128-bit system registers, including two intrinsics for accessing them (__rsr128 and __wsr128), and a feature macro to detect if they are available (__ARM_FEATURE_SYSREG128).
- Added support for FEAT_LRCPC3 LDAP1/STL1 intrinsics and __ARM_FEATURE_RCPC.
- Corrected the mandatory architecture versions for FEAT_LRCPC and FEAT_LRCPC2.
- Corrected references to -pedantic flag.
- Fixed typos.
- Fixes for Function Multi Versioning:
- Renamed features to sme-f64f64 and sme-i16i64
- Corrected register name to ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1.I16I64
- Removed incorrect optimisation remark in CMSE's floating-point register clearing.
- Removed incorrect information about the floating-point ABI used in CMSE's Arguments on the stack and floating point handling.
- Corrected description and example in CMSE's section about non-secure function pointers.
ACLE 2022 Q4
Release highlights
The only document changed in this release is the main Arm C Language Extensions, at version 2022Q4.
List of changes:
- Added Alpha support for SME.
- Added feature detection macro
__ARM_FEATURE_RCPCfor RCpc (Release Consistent processor consistent) model at RCpc. - Added two new valid values to the SVE feature macros:
__ARM_FEATURE_SVE_VECTOR_OPERATORS=2.__ARM_FEATURE_SVE_PREDICATE_OPERATORS=2.
- Fixes for Function Multi Versioning:
- Added missing features of
ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1andID_AA64ISAR2_EL1. - Renamed the feature macro to
__HAVE_FUNCTION_MULTI_VERSIONING. - Added some clarifications.
- Added missing features of