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Add paragraph describing consistency using fpenv #15

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Looks good, thanks! And thanks to @tlively for the key idea that made it much simpler!

@@ -37,6 +37,77 @@ Example of some instructions we would like to add:
- Relaxed Swizzle (implementation defined out of bounds behavior)
- Relaxed Rounding Q-format Multiplication (optional saturation)

### Consistency

This proposal introduces non-deterministic instructions - given the same
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I think "non-deterministic instructions" here (and one more below) might have to change to something like "hardware-dependent instructions", because we have the section below about how the non-determinism is encapsuated in fpenv, making instructions deterministic. It can be a bit confusing.

@ngzhian ngzhian merged commit 77e5f06 into WebAssembly:main Mar 25, 2021
@ngzhian ngzhian deleted the fpenv branch March 25, 2021 16:36
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