Public Review for RISC-V Pointer Masking Specification

[Martin Maas]

The RISC-V J Extension TG is delighted to announce the start of the public review period for the proposed Smmpm, Smnpm, Ssnpm, Sspm, and Supm standard extension to the RISC-V ISA, collectively known as Pointer Masking.

The 30-day review period begins today, March 20, 2024, and ends on April 19, 2024.

These extensions are described in the PDF spec available at:

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension/releases/download/pointer-masking-v1.0.0-rc1/pointer-masking-v1.0.0-rc1.pdf

which was generated from the source available in the following GitHub folder:

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension/tree/master/zjpm

To respond to the public review, please either email comments to the public RISC-V ISA-Dev mailing list at isa...@groups.riscv.org or add issues to the GitHub repo:

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension/issues

During the public review period, corrections, comments, and suggestions, will be gathered for review by the J Extension group and the Unprivileged ISA committee. Any minor corrections and/or uncontroversial changes will be incorporated into the specification. Any remaining issues or proposed changes will be addressed in the public review summary report. If there are no issues that require incompatible changes to the public review specification, the Unprivileged ISA Committee will recommend the updated specifications be approved and ratified by the RISC-V Technical Steering Committee and the RISC-V Board of Directors.

Thanks to all the contributors for their hard work.

Martin Maas and Adam Zabrocki
Chair & Vice-Chair, J Extension TG