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Using half-precision F16C intrinsics
- From: voxner <voxner dot dev at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 02:59:06 +0530
- Subject: Using half-precision F16C intrinsics
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Hi,
I am trying to build a program which uses half precision numbers. I
found that the x86 processor I am using supports the F16 instructions
(like vcvtps2ph) by checking the bit_16C in ecx register.
However when I tried to include F16C intrinsics I get the following
error (I am using the gcc that comes with the ubuntu installation
[1].)
#include <f16cintrin.h>
In file included from main.c:5:0:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include/f16cintrin.h:29:3: error:
#error "F16C instruction set not enabled"
# error "F16C instruction set not enabled"
This seems to be governed by compiler flag __F16C__. Do I need to
recompile GCC with options to enable F16C? Can somebody point me to
the set of options that I need to use while compiling gcc for F16C
intrinsics.
[1]
~:~/lab$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
4.8.2-19ubuntu1'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
--enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
--enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libmudflap --enable-plugin
--with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk
--enable-gtk-cairo
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre
--enable-java-home
--with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64
--with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64
--with-arch-directory=amd64
--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc
--enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
Vox