Earl Killian

Avoiding definition of a new term is good, but I think the paragraph is still a bit hard to interpret because of the "by default" and "however". While the following...

@aswaterman I would like to suggest two bits in the FCSR be added to indicate the format of 16-bit FP. 00 would IEEE, 01 would be bfloat16, and 10 would...

WARL sounds good. Bits 8-9 perhaps? Or would it be good to reserve bits for 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, and 128-bit at the same time? That might suggest 16-17, 18-19, 20-21,...

This could be viewed as a reason to get it into the ISA as soon as possible, so implementations can add the bit(s) and trap if it is set if...

Do we need to move this to the tech mailing list?