[wmf]

Dropping "C" overnight and thus making all existing Linux software incompatible is completely out of the question.

Android was never really Linux though.

[refulgentis]

This is officially too much quibbling, even if we settled philosophical questions like "Is Android Linux?" Then "If not, would dropping C make RISC nonviable", there isn't actually an Android version that'll do RISC anywhere near on the horizon. Support _reversed_ for it, got pulled 5 months ago

[snvzz]

>Support _reversed_ for it, got pulled 5 months ago

Cursory research will yield that this was a technicality with no weight in Google's strong commitment to RISC-V Android support.

[refulgentis]

If you trust PR (I don't, and I worked on Android for 7 years until a year ago) - this is a nitpick 5 levels down -- regardless of how you weigh it, there is no Android RISC-V

[weebull]

Dropping the compressed instructions is also a performance / power issue. That matters to mobile.