RISC-V instructions longer than 32 bits are just a theoretical possibility at this point. An extension escape hatch for the future. No one has done it, no one

RISC-V instructions longer than 32 bits are just a theoretical possibility at this point. An extension escape hatch for the future. No one has done it, no one seems to be keen to be the first to do it, and even how the instruction length encodings work is not a ratified part of the spec -- it's just a proposal at the moment, even for the next step of 48 bit instructions. There has been discussion of encodings better than the one proposed in the current spec, especially around instruction length encoding schemes that would make more opcode bits available in 80 bit instructions than in the scheme in the spec, so as to have a possibility of encoding 64 bit literals in an 80 bit instruction. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/issues/280 https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/issues/280