RISC-V: Add Zama16b extension support
New RISC-V extension 'Zama16b' for Binutils, complementing GCC support.
Nelson Chu approves the patch to add support for the RISC-V Zama16b extension in Binutils, noting its existing support in GCC. The patch adds Zama16b to the list of supported standard extensions in BFD and updates the assembler’s NEWS and test suite.
- maintainer
Approves the patch to add Zama16b extension support to Binutils, as GCC already supports it, and requests it be committed.
“Okay, if Gcc already supported it then we should at least recognize it in Binutils. Please commit, thanks.”
In Details
This patch updates Binutils to recognize the RISC-V 'Zama16b' extension. The extension has already been incorporated into GCC, and this change ensures that the assembler and related tools can correctly parse and handle code using this new instruction set extension. It involves updating internal lists of supported extensions and related test cases.
- RISC-V
- An open-source instruction set architecture (ISA).
- Zama16b
- A specific extension for the RISC-V architecture, likely related to arithmetic or matrix operations.
- extension
- An optional set of instructions that can be added to a base instruction set architecture to provide additional functionality.