I also hope whoever gave risc-v seperate floating-point registers stubs their toe on a rusty nail

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This only made sense in the 80s where the FPU was a seperate piece of silicon.
Nowadays there's no reason to have a seperate FPU even in a space-constrained microcontroller

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@iska
It makes no sense to make floating point capabilities mandatory, microcontrollers aren't SBCs — some of them are very basic.
Floating point capabilities are still optional even in the latest Cortex-M cores: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cort

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@iska
Also, as far as I can tell, the author of the linked article complains about the dual use of registers and you complain… about presence of dedicated registers? 🤷
That's kinda contradictory. What is your point?

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