diff --git a/asm/riscv_assemble.go b/asm/riscv_assemble.go
index bd2e787..f95b3db 100644
--- a/asm/riscv_assemble.go
+++ b/asm/riscv_assemble.go
@@ -352,6 +352,26 @@ func riscvPadBytes(pad int) []byte {
 	return out
 }
 
+// riscvFenceFlags carries the toolchain's sixteen FENCE flag spellings (its
+// specialOperands table between SPOP_FENCE_BEGIN and SPOP_FENCE_END), each
+// with the 4-bit encoding the predecessor and successor fields pack.
+var riscvFenceFlags = map[string]uint32{
+	"W": 1, "R": 2, "RW": 3, "O": 4, "OW": 5, "OR": 6, "ORW": 7,
+	"I": 8, "IW": 9, "IR": 10, "IRW": 11, "IO": 12, "IOW": 13,
+	"IOR": 14, "IORW": 15,
+}
+
+// riscvFenceFlag resolves one FENCE flag operand (a bare name such as W or
+// IORW) to its 4-bit encoding.
+func riscvFenceFlag(op *ast.Operand) (uint32, bool) {
+	name := ""
+	if op.Addr.Sym != nil {
+		name = op.Addr.Sym.Name
+	}
+	v, ok := riscvFenceFlags[strings.ToUpper(name)]
+	return v, ok
+}
+
 // riscvInstrSize returns the encoded size in bytes of a RISC-V instruction.
 // Most instructions are 4 bytes; MOV with a large immediate and I-type
 // arithmetic with a large immediate expand to several (possibly compressed)
@@ -1322,6 +1342,19 @@ func encodeRISCVInstr(instr *ast.Instr, pc int, offsets map[string]int, fi riscv
 		if mnem == "PAUSE" {
 			imm = 0x010
 		}
+		// FENCE pred, succ spells both flags with the toolchain's sixteen
+		// IORW combinations, packed as pred<<4 | succ in the immediate.
+		if mnem == "FENCE" && len(ops) == 2 {
+			pred, ok := riscvFenceFlag(ops[0])
+			if !ok {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("FENCE: invalid predecessor operand %q", ops[0].Raw)
+			}
+			succ, ok := riscvFenceFlag(ops[1])
+			if !ok {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("FENCE: invalid successor operand %q", ops[1].Raw)
+			}
+			imm = int32(pred)<<4 | int32(succ)
+		}
 		word = riscvIType(enc, 0, 0, imm)
 		return []byte{byte(word), byte(word >> 8), byte(word >> 16), byte(word >> 24)}, nil