> instruction decode must be unambiguous, it merely expands every opcode with
> extra bits from a "select" CSR.
+## (5) Krste Asanovic on clarification of use of opcode space
+
+> A CPU is even free to reuse some standard extension encoding space for
+> non-standard extensions provided it does not claim to implement that
+> standard extension.
+
# References
* <https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/forum/#!topic/isa-dev/7bbwSIW5aqM>