Comment by gingerBill

Odin is never going to support SHARC nor Hexagon, so it is literally not a problem.

And I do not even seen why a universal syntax for such ISAs is impossible to support either at the syntax level. Hexagon's `.new`/`:sat`/`:<<1` stuff could be easily added into the universal syntax (with a better syntax), even if other ISAs do not support it. Same with SHARC's parallel-operation separators: you just pick a different syntax.

Even now, the full `[base + indexscale + disp]` syntax is not semantically supported for RISCV64 because they do not support `indexscale` in their memory operands.

Yes the prefix syntax is a quirk but if can tell me an alternative syntax that is context-free to solve this problem that is also not too stark nor dense too read, please do! I am open to new ideas, but it seems that even other assemblers like Plan9, Go, and D, all came to similar conclusion with `lock; xadd ...`.

And the article was not LLM written.