Comment by artemonster
15 hours ago
"What range of offsets can a 16-bit instruction encode? Zero through three. Not thirty three, not three hundred and three. Three! Well, maybe it is better for storing a halfword? Nope... zero or two. What even? Why" What the fuck is this criticism? Its sanely specced, who would want arbitrary unaligned offsets, like for anything? Supporting such obscure idiot cases is too much unnecessary pain, so cut it off on spec level
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