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Re: [PATCH] ARM half-precision floating point, 4/8 (add new float representations)
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:12:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM half-precision floating point, 4/8 (add new float representations)
- References: <49E65E11.6000202@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Sandra Loosemore
<sandra@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> This patch specifies the details of the IEEE and ARM alternative
> half-precision float formats. ?The latter is similar to the IEEE
> representation, but extends the exponent range by borrowing the bit
> the IEEE representation uses to represent infinities and NaNs. ?Otherwise
> they can share the encode/decode logic.
This is ok.
Thanks,
Richard.
> -Sandra
>
>
> 2009-04-15 ?Sandra Loosemore ?<sandra@codesourcery.com>
>
> ? ? ? ?gcc/
> ? ? ? ?* real.c (encode_ieee_half): Define.
> ? ? ? ?(decode_ieee_half): Define.
> ? ? ? ?(ieee_half_format): Define.
> ? ? ? ?(arm_half_format): Define.
> ? ? ? ?* real.h (ieee_half_format): Declare.
> ? ? ? ?(arm_half_format): Declare.
>