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Allow an optional vendor name filed for non-standard extension names #616

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Expand Up @@ -125,10 +125,13 @@ \section{Machine-level Instruction-Set Extensions}

\section{Non-Standard Extension Names}

Non-standard extensions are named using a single ``X'' followed by an
alphabetical name and an optional version number.
Non-standard extensions are named using a single ``X'' followed by an optional vendor
name field seperated by a single ``-'' an alphabetical name and an optional version
number.
For example, ``Xhwacha'' names the Hwacha vector-fetch ISA extension;
``Xhwacha2'' and ``Xhwacha2p0'' name version 2.0 of same.
``Xucb-hwacha'' names the cache extension from UCB,
``Xucb-hwacha2'' and ``Xucb-hwacha2'' name version 2.0 of same.

Non-standard extensions must be listed after all standard extensions.
They must be separated from other multi-letter extensions
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