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Re: What happened to short float?

From GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.std.c
Subject Re: What happened to short float?
Date 2018-02-08 01:29 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <20180208012936.09fa549ce0fe0785da7cf560@gmail.com> (permalink)
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 08:55:00 -0500
Tim Prince <tprince@intelretiree.com> wrote:

> On 2/2/2018 5:08 PM, jacobnavia wrote:
> Perhaps there is little more to say.  The format has little attraction
> for portable code, as many platforms can't implement it efficiently.
> 
> -- 
> Tim Prince

Any IEEE 754 compliant hardware that supports the float type (aka single
precision float) would be able to support the short float type (i.e.
less or equal to single precision float).

Actually the AMD64 architecture FPU only computes 80-bit floats and
the long double type is a synonym for the double or float types since
they are internally the same thing.

The short float type implementation shouldn't be as hard as:

typedef float sflt_t;

Once more, the F16C instruction set enables to convert single precision
floats to half precision floats for storage purpose. Thus, the
implementation shouldn't be as hard as:

typedef char half_t[2];
typedef half_t sflt_t;

-- 
GOTHIER Nathan

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What happened to short float? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2018-01-17 17:21 +0100
  Re: What happened to short float? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2018-01-17 11:42 -0500
    Re: What happened to short float? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-02 23:08 +0100
      Re: What happened to short float? Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com> - 2018-02-05 07:57 +0100
        Re: What happened to short float? jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2018-02-05 05:31 -0800
      Re: What happened to short float? Tim Prince <tprince@intelretiree.com> - 2018-02-05 08:55 -0500
        Re: What happened to short float? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-05 15:46 +0100
        Re: What happened to short float? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2018-02-08 01:29 +0100
          Re: What happened to short float? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-07 16:59 -0800
            Re: What happened to short float? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2018-02-08 09:08 +0100
              Re: What happened to short float? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-08 09:27 -0800
            Re: What happened to short float? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2018-02-08 09:54 +0100
              Re: What happened to short float? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-08 10:13 -0800
            Re: What happened to short float? jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2018-02-08 06:36 -0800
              Re: What happened to short float? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2018-02-08 17:04 +0100
                Re: What happened to short float? jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2018-02-08 08:56 -0800
                Re: What happened to short float? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-02-08 17:23 +0000
                Re: What happened to short float? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2018-02-08 18:52 +0100
                Re: What happened to short float? jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2018-02-08 11:27 -0800
                Re: What happened to short float? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2018-02-08 22:58 +0100
              Re: What happened to short float? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-08 10:18 -0800
          Re: What happened to short float? Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com> - 2018-02-08 18:59 +0100
            Re: What happened to short float? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2018-02-08 16:22 -0600
              Re: What happened to short float? Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com> - 2018-02-09 15:01 +0100
  Re: What happened to short float? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2018-01-17 09:12 -0800
  Re: What happened to short float? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-01-17 17:31 +0000
  Re: What happened to short float? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-01-17 19:52 +0100
    Re: What happened to short float? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2018-01-18 13:18 +0100
      Re: What happened to short float? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-01-18 12:40 +0000

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