RVV defines a total of 12 different extensions, including:
- 5 different instruction subsets:
- Zve32x: 8-, 16- and 32-bit integers,
- Zve32f: Zve32x plus single precision floats,
- Zve64x: Zve32x plus 64-bit integers,
- Zve64f: Zve32f plus Zve64x,
- Zve64d: Zve64f plus double precision floats.
- 6 different vector lengths:
- Zvl32b (embedded only),
- Zvl64b (embedded only),
- Zvl128b,
- Zvl256b,
- Zvl512b,
- Zvl1024b,
- and the V extension proper: equivalent to Zve64f and Zvl128b.
In total, there are 6 different possible sets of supported instructions
(including the empty set), but for convenience we allocate one bit for
each type sets: up-to-32-bit ints (RVV_I32), floats (RVV_F32),
64-bit ints (RVV_I64) and doubles (RVV_F64).
Whence the vector size is needed, it can be retrieved by reading the
unprivileged read-only vlenb CSR. This should probably be a separate
helper macro if needed at a later point.
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