[AlbertoGP]

That’s a great link, specially the (at the moment) single reply which gives some background about why it was done this way, and how it makes sense.

Just scroll a bit down to read it: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/issues/811#issuecommen...

I don’t know much about this, I’m a programmer, but the explanation makes sense to me.