Apart from requests for more instructions, which can be handled with
later extensions, there were no real substantive updates.
I did notice one issue at end of public review, however.
The current specification allows some instructions to have two vector
source operands read from the same vector register but with different
EEW. For example, a vector indexed store with the index vector and
data vector overlapping, but different EEW. Or a widening vector add
(vwadd.wv) where the two vector sources overlap but have different
EEW. This complicates implementations that internally restripe the
vector data (e.g., internal SLEN), and does not have a valid software
use (cue folks furiously trying to construct one...).
The proposal is to allow implementations to raise an illegal
instruction exception in this case. I believe this is an important
and necessary change to accomodate internal striping. In practice,
this change has no impact on software.
We do have a choice of:
1) Mandate all implementations raise an illegal exception in this
case. This is my preferred route, as this would be a minor errata for
existing implementations (doesn't affect software), and we would not reuse
this state/encoding for other purposes.
2) Allow either correct execution or illegal exception (as with
misaligned).
3) Consider "reserved", implying implementations that support it are
non-conforming unless we later go with 2).
I'm assuming we're going to push to ratify 1) unless I hear strong objections.
Krste