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authorAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>2017-05-15 23:28:53 -0500
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@@ -52,15 +52,6 @@ example, the base ISA is defined within a 30-bit encoding space (bits
31--2 of the 32-bit instruction), while the atomic extension ``A''
fits within a 25-bit encoding space (bits 31--7).
-We use the term ILEN to refer to the maximum instruction length supported
-by an implementation, which is always a multiple of 16 bits. For
-implementations supporting only the base instruction set, ILEN is 32 bits.
-Implementations supporting longer instructions have larger values of ILEN.
-ILEN is implied from the set of extensions implemented, or can be
-explicitly defined in the platform configuration if an implementation is
-designed to support an extension that uses longer instructions via software
-emulation but does not actually decode longer instructions in hardware.
-
We use the term {\em prefix} to refer to the bits to the {\em right}
of an instruction encoding space (since RISC-V is little-endian, the
bits to the right are stored at earlier memory addresses, hence form a