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		monocasa on March 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Addressing Criticism of RISC-V Microprocessors > Yes but these are generally linear - if an x86 chip supports extension N it will support extension N-1 too. Not true for RISC-V. Not if you include AMD and Intel cores in that.

IshKebab on March 20, 2022 [–]

Why do you say that? Look here:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#x86

monocasa on March 20, 2022 | [–]

That list isn't really an accurate picture of the world, but a vague attempt to make sense of the madness.

There's plenty of cores that don't follow that versioning scheme, and it's not an Intel or AMD construct.

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