Starting with Rust 1.85.0 (to be released 2025-02-20), `rustc` warns
[1] about disabling neon in the aarch64 hardfloat target:
warning: target feature `neon` cannot be toggled with
`-Ctarget-feature`: unsound on hard-float targets
because it changes float ABI
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= note: this was previously accepted by the compiler but
is being phased out; it will become a hard error
in a future release!
= note: for more information, see issue #116344
<https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116344>
Thus, instead, use the softfloat target instead.
While trying it out, I found that the kernel sanitizers were not enabled
for that built-in target [2]. Upstream Rust agreed to backport
the enablement for the current beta so that it is ready for
the 1.85.0 release [3] -- thanks!
However, that still means that before Rust 1.85.0, we cannot switch
since sanitizers could be in use. Thus conditionally do so.