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The RISC-V architecture uses IEEE floating-point numbers.
The RISC-V Zfa extension includes a load-immediate instruction for floating-point registers, which allows specifying the immediate (from a pool of 32 predefined values defined in the specification) as operand. E.g. to load the value 0.0625 as single-precision FP value into the FP register ft1 one of the following instructions can be used:
fli.s ft1, 0.0625 # dec floating-point literal fli.s ft1, 0x1p-4 # hex floating-point literal fli.s ft1, 0x0.8p-3 fli.s ft1, 0x1.0p-4 fli.s ft1, 0x2p-5 fli.s ft1, 0x4p-6 ...
As can be seen, many valid ways exist to express a floating-point value. This is realized by parsing the value operand using strtof() and comparing the parsed value against built-in float-constants that are written as hex floating-point literals.
This approach works on all machines that use IEEE 754. However, there is a chance that this fails on other machines with the following error message:
Error: improper fli value operand Error: illegal operands fli.s ft1,0.0625
The error indicates that parsing 0x1p-4 and 0.0625 to single-precision floating point numbers will not result in two equal values on that machine.
If you encounter this problem, then please report it.