https://www.computerenhance.com/p/the-problem-with-risc-v-v-mask-bits

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

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

@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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M#Cortex-M52