By: Heikki Kultala (heikk.i.kultal.a.delete@this.gmail.com), March 9, 2022 1:35 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
There seem to be lots of really stupid instruction naming conventions on RISC-V:
When they were proposing a select instruction to the BMI extension, they were going to call it "cmov"
In the V-extension, they have an instruction named "vrgather".
But that instruction is not a gather load instruction. This instructoin is just a shuffle instruction.
What have the guys deciding the naming of these instructions have been smoking?
When they were proposing a select instruction to the BMI extension, they were going to call it "cmov"
In the V-extension, they have an instruction named "vrgather".
But that instruction is not a gather load instruction. This instructoin is just a shuffle instruction.
What have the guys deciding the naming of these instructions have been smoking?