[cpeterso]

Do RISC-V specs document which instruction combinations they recommend be fused? Sounds like the fused instructions are an implementation detail that must be well-documented for compiler writers to know to emit the magic instruction combinations.

[mlyle]

For this specific case, yes, the RISC-V ISA document recommends instruction sequences for checking for overflow-- that are both amenable to fusion and are relatively high performing on implementations that don't fuse.

Section 2.4, https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-spec-v2.2...

[__init]

It generally goes the other way around -- programmers and compilers settle on a few idiomatic ways to do something, and new cores are built to execute those quickly. Because RISC-V is RISC, it seems likely that those few ways would be less idiomatic and more 'the only real way to do x', which would aid in the applicability of the fusions.