diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/hardware.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/hardware.rs
index 0d1e3f7e4de..fbc097c75d8 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/hardware.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/hardware.rs
@@ -143,17 +143,10 @@ impl CpuFeatures {
     }
 
     fn detect_impl() -> Self {
-        let set = [
-            (HardwareFeature::Avx512, detect_avx512 as fn() -> bool),
-            (HardwareFeature::Avx2, detect_avx2),
-            (HardwareFeature::PclMul, detect_pclmul),
-            (HardwareFeature::Vmull, detect_vmull),
-            (HardwareFeature::Sse2, detect_sse2),
-            (HardwareFeature::Asimd, detect_asimd),
-        ]
-        .into_iter()
-        .filter_map(|(feat, detect)| detect().then_some(feat))
-        .collect();
+        let set = FEATURE_DETECTORS
+            .iter()
+            .filter_map(|(feat, detect)| detect().then_some(*feat))
+            .collect();
 
         Self { set }
     }
@@ -239,6 +232,33 @@ impl HasHardwareFeatures for SimdPolicy {
 
 // Platform-specific feature detection
 
+/// A feature this architecture can have, with its detector.
+type FeatureDetector = (HardwareFeature, fn() -> bool);
+
+#[cfg(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
+const FEATURE_DETECTORS: &[FeatureDetector] = &[
+    (HardwareFeature::Avx512, detect_avx512),
+    (HardwareFeature::Avx2, detect_avx2),
+    (HardwareFeature::PclMul, detect_pclmul),
+    (HardwareFeature::Sse2, detect_sse2),
+];
+
+// bytecount's aarch64 SIMD code, used by wc, is only built for little-endian
+// targets, so skip these detectors on big-endian targets.
+#[cfg(all(target_arch = "aarch64", target_endian = "little"))]
+const FEATURE_DETECTORS: &[FeatureDetector] = &[
+    (HardwareFeature::Vmull, detect_vmull),
+    (HardwareFeature::Asimd, detect_asimd),
+];
+
+// No hardware feature detectors are currently supported on this target.
+#[cfg(not(any(
+    target_arch = "x86",
+    target_arch = "x86_64",
+    all(target_arch = "aarch64", target_endian = "little")
+)))]
+const FEATURE_DETECTORS: &[FeatureDetector] = &[];
+
 #[cfg(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
 fn detect_avx512() -> bool {
     if cfg!(target_os = "android") {
@@ -249,11 +269,6 @@ fn detect_avx512() -> bool {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64")))]
-fn detect_avx512() -> bool {
-    false
-}
-
 #[cfg(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
 fn detect_avx2() -> bool {
     if cfg!(target_os = "android") {
@@ -263,11 +278,6 @@ fn detect_avx2() -> bool {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64")))]
-fn detect_avx2() -> bool {
-    false
-}
-
 #[cfg(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
 fn detect_pclmul() -> bool {
     if cfg!(target_os = "android") {
@@ -277,11 +287,6 @@ fn detect_pclmul() -> bool {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64")))]
-fn detect_pclmul() -> bool {
-    false
-}
-
 #[cfg(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
 fn detect_sse2() -> bool {
     if cfg!(target_os = "android") {
@@ -291,12 +296,7 @@ fn detect_sse2() -> bool {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64")))]
-fn detect_sse2() -> bool {
-    false
-}
-
-#[cfg(all(target_arch = "aarch64", target_endian = "little"))]
+#[cfg(target_arch = "aarch64")]
 fn detect_asimd() -> bool {
     if cfg!(target_os = "android") {
         false
@@ -305,11 +305,6 @@ fn detect_asimd() -> bool {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(all(target_arch = "aarch64", target_endian = "little")))]
-fn detect_asimd() -> bool {
-    false
-}
-
 #[cfg(target_arch = "aarch64")]
 fn detect_vmull() -> bool {
     // VMULL on 64-bit lanes needs PMULL, an optional extension.
@@ -321,11 +316,6 @@ fn detect_vmull() -> bool {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "aarch64"))]
-fn detect_vmull() -> bool {
-    false
-}
-
 // GLIBC_TUNABLES parsing
 
 /// Parse the `glibc.cpu.hwcaps` setting of `GLIBC_TUNABLES` into the set of