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@@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ whether stride is unit or element:
 
 An immediate of zero is a safety-valve to allow `LD-VSPLAT`:
 in effect the multiplication of the immediate-offset by zero results
-in reading from the exact same memory location.
+in reading from the exact same memory location, *even with a Vector
+register*. (Normally this type of behaviour is reserved for the
+mapreduce modes)
 
 For `LD-VSPLAT`, on non-cache-inhibited Loads, the read can occur
 just the once and be copied, rather than hitting the Data Cache