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See #129884 and #116344 for context explaining what a forbidden target feature is.
The plan for target features like fpreg on ARM is that they will be forbidden unless the target has soft-float in its base feature set. This means our hardfloat ARM targets require fpregs, but on our softfloat ARM targets users can opt-in to having the FPU avialable, it just won't be used for the ABI. See #124404 for why we can't just forbid fpregs outright.
What should the behavior of cfg(target-feature = "fpregs") be, then? For now, #129884 makes it so that forbidden features are never set in cfg. But for this one it seems like when we unstable add fpregs for softfloat targets, then we'll want to unstably expose the ability to do cfg(target-feature = "fpregs") on all ARM targets. So we'll need a concept of target features that are forbidden to set, but can be unstably (and eventually, stably) queried. At the same time, other target features like soft-float likely should never be queried.
So seems like for these more complicated features, the question whether a feature is forbidden to set is somewhat orthogonal to its stability. I have some plans for a follow-up PR to #129884 to be able to represent that, but still need to figure out the details.