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Re:RISC-V asm instruction name madness by snvzz on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:20PM (#30679215)
IMHO it is actually a good thing.

It promotes looking up what an opcode does, rather than assuming what it does from its name.

What an opcode precisely does is actually critical, in assembly.

Once the engineer has done so and is intimately familiar with the opcode, the short mnemonic is a non-issue.

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