ARMv8.1 adds instructions for atomic compare-and-swap with optional memory ordering specifiers. This patch series adds the instructions to GCC, making them available with -march=armv8.1-a or with -march=armv8-a+lse, and using them to implement the __sync and __atomic builtins. This patch adds an internal TARGET_LSE macro, to check target support for the atomic instructions. Subsequent patches - add and use atomic compare-and-swap instructions; - add tests for the compare-and-swap; Tested the series for aarch64-none-linux-gnu with native bootstrap and make check and for aarch64-none-elf with cross-compiled check-gcc. Also tested aarch64-none-elf with cross-compiled check-gcc on an emulator that supports ARMv8.1. Ok for trunk? Matthew 2015-08-12 Matthew Wahab * config/aarch64/aarch64.h (AARCH64_ISA_LSE): New. (TARGET_LSE): New.