AFAIK there's a 'bit-addressable' extension for ARM, but I lack the google-fu to search for it (I guess this only applies to loading and storing data, not 'arbi

AFAIK there's a 'bit-addressable' extension for ARM, but I lack the google-fu to search for it (I guess this only applies to loading and storing data, not 'arbitrary width instructions') For the data load/store case, if you go with the (high-level) idea that bytes are nothing special anymore (because cache line width is the new word width), and instead you have arbitrary width integers (like Zig for instance), it would also make sense to have 'bit granularity pointers'. All you'd need is to move a regular pointer 3 bits to the left (which should be ok because the upper bits are wasted anyway). IMHO this would make a lot of sense from a system programming language PoV, but I guess the hardware guys can think of a couple of reasons to object :)