It has been seen that the though sigma phase is formed at high temperature , embrittlement by sigma phase in Austenitic SS does not
normally occur at high temperatures of say within 560 -980 deg C as the weld or base material themselves are soft at high temperature
and if the ferrite in the weld is kept within 10 -12% and the welds are not subjected to high impact loading in service. Hence I expect for M38 ( and also for M393 ) , if the service temperature is kept high for a long time and there is no high impact loading on weld at high temperature , there should not be any problem in weld