On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 2:17 PM Bill Huffman <huffman@...> wrote:

I'm glad this came up.  I certainly wouldn't want to try to make an implementation work for these cases.  😊

I lean a bit toward #3, not so much because we might use the space as because I think we've called all the other similar corners of opcode space that don't make sense to implement "reserved."  Possibly that's because they might make sense someday and this won't.

I think these encodings are qualitatively different from other nooks and crannies, since their availability is a function of the dynamic vtype setting.  So we can rationalize the departure from the normal practice of marking the state reserved.