and exact same Instruction Encoding in all spaces (including
being RESERVED if UnVectoriseable) or not be allocated at all.
This is required as an inviolate hard rule governing Primary Opcode 9
-that may not be revoked under any circumstances*
+that may not be revoked under any circumstances. A useful way to think
+of this is that the Prefix Encoding is, like the 8086 REP instruction,
+an independent 32-bit Defined Word.*
# Remapped Encoding (`RM[0:23]`)
In the SVP64 Vector Prefix spaces, the 24 bits 8-31 are termed `RM`. Bits 32-37 are
the Primary Opcode of the Suffix "Defined Word". 38-63 are the remainder of the
Defined Word. Note that the new EXT232-263 SVP64 area it is obviously mandatory
-that bit 32 is required to be set.
+that bit 32 is required to be set to 1.
| 0-5 | 6 | 7 | 8-31 | 32-37 | 38-64 |Description |
-|-----|---|---|----------|--------|----------|----------------------------------|
+|-----|---|---|----------|--------|----------|-----------------------|
| PO | 0 | 1 | RM[0:23] | 1nnnnn | xxxxxxxx | SVP64:EXT232-263 |
| PO | 1 | 1 | RM[0:23] | nnnnnn | xxxxxxxx | SVP64:EXT000-063 |