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diff --git a/src/extensions.tex b/src/extensions.tex index 2517165..6eaf116 100644 --- a/src/extensions.tex +++ b/src/extensions.tex @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ example, the base ISA is defined within a 30-bit encoding space (bits fits within a 25-bit encoding space (bits 31--7). 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 +of an instruction encoding space (since instruction fetch in RISC-V is +little-endian, the bits to the right are stored at earlier memory addresses, hence form a prefix in instruction-fetch order). The prefix for the standard base ISA encoding is the two-bit ``11'' field held in bits 1--0 of the |