4vtomat wrote:

> > Since it's possible that **ISA spec** and **intrinsics spec** are not 
> > synchronized, so the updates add an dummy extension called 
> > **zexperimental**, once `-menable-experimental-extensions` is specified, 
> > the feature `zexperimental` is automatically added.
> > If `let RequiredFeatures = ["Zexperimental"] ` is added in `.td` file, it 
> > will check if `zexperimental` exists, if not, the corresponding intrinsics 
> > would not be added, hence causing an **intrinsics undeclared** error.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this. It's perhaps surprising we've gone so long 
> without having the infrastructure to make an extension non-experimental 
> without making its not-yet-finalized intrinsics non-experimental. Introducing 
> a new required feature seems like a reasonable way of doing this, but 
> introducing a dummy extension seems unnecessary (unless I'm missing 
> something?).
> 
> I could see a solution involving a Clang flag (e.g. 
> `-menable-experimental-intrinsics`), or perhaps a solution where the user 
> must use a certain `#define` (I know riscv_vector.h is implemented using a 
> pragma, but presumably that could still query defines). There may be other 
> options too.
> 
> Another piece of info that would be helpful to better understand is what the 
> process is for finalising intrinsic additions (@eopXD might know?). If it's 
> just the case that we have to wait another month before moving an extension 
> from experimental to experimental then maybe extra infro to separate 
> experimental intrinsics from instructions is less interesting. If it's more 
> indeterminate than that, we probably need it.
> 
> I'll put this on the agenda for Thursday's RISC-V LLVM sync-up call in the 
> hope we can resolve it there.

Yeah, we don't need a new extension actually, thanks for pointing out!

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/69000
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