RV64 has a maximum 32-bit instruction encoding
I kinda expected that to happen, since there’s already enough to fit all required functions. So yeah, even this is not a good enough criteria for bit rating.
those original 8-bit intructions still exist, and take up a huge part of the encoding space, cutting the number of n-bit instructions to more like 2^(n-7)
err… they are still instructions, right? And they are implemented. I don’t see why you would negate that from the number of instructions.
Ah right! I forgot about that.
So you either have to pad all instructions in all previous binaries, or reduce the amount of available instructions in the arch update.