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ccgreg 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

There are? We aren't talking about feature bits, and the only known software that checks the vendor are Intel's math libraries.

bonzini 26 days ago [–]

They are minor but enough to complicate things. For example Intel rejects the SYSCALL instruction outside 64-bit mode.

ccgreg 24 days ago | [–]

Huh. A quick google says that's a feature bit and there's also an OS call to turn it on.

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