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Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive by KingLancelot on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:00AM (#37999287)
Why not treat it like Unicode does and just have two marker instructions before and after the compressed ones?

Start compressed instructions <size>

Compressed instructions

End compressed instructions <size>

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Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive by _a_a_a_ on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:31AM (#37999684)
If I understand you correctly, the guy I'm responding to is proposing allowing the mixing of different sized instructions. Your suggestion effectively says "I'm starting a run of compressed instructions/I'm finishing a run of compressed instructions" which is a different proposition. Just my take though.
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Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive by KMag on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:32PM (#38005947)
Which Unicode encoding are you talking about? It sounds a bit like you're talking about UTF-16 conjugate pairs, but that's not how those work. It's not how UTF-8 or UTF-32 work. So, which encoding is this?
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