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authorBill Traynor <wmat@riscv.org>2022-12-18 00:07:58 -0500
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@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ This chapter describes the RISC-V ISA extension naming scheme that is
used to concisely describe the set of instructions present in a hardware
implementation, or the set of instructions used by an application binary
interface (ABI).
-
-The RISC-V ISA is designed to support a wide variety of implementations
+[NOTE]
+====
+_The RISC-V ISA is designed to support a wide variety of implementations
with various experimental instruction-set extensions. We have found that
-an organized naming scheme simplifies software tools and documentation.
-
+an organized naming scheme simplifies software tools and documentation._
+====
=== Case Sensitivity
The ISA naming strings are case insensitive.
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ of the P extension.
Standard extensions can also be named using a single "Z" followed by
an alphabetical name and an optional version number. For example,
"Zifencei" names the instruction-fetch fence extension described in
-<<zifencei>>; "Zifencei2" and
+<<zifencei, Chapter 3>>; "Zifencei2" and
"Zifencei2p0" name version 2.0 of same.
The first letter following the "Z" conventionally indicates the most
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ alphabetically.
=== Subset Naming Convention
-<<isanametable>> summarizes the standardized extension
+<<isanametable, Table 42>> summarizes the standardized extension
names. The table also defines the canonical
order in which extension names must appear in the name string, with
top-to-bottom in table indicating first-to-last in the name string,