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Re: What happened to short float?

From Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: What happened to short float?
Date 2018-01-18 13:18 +0100
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Am 17.01.2018 um 19:52 schrieb jacobnavia:
> Le 17/01/2018 à 17:21, Philipp Klaus Krause a écrit :
>> At the 2016 London meeting of WG14, adding a new short float type
>> (N2016) was discussed, and there was a clear consensus to move forward.
>>
>> What has happened about short float since?
>>
>> Philipp
>>
> lcc hasn't implemented them because of time constraints.
> 
> They are a memory only format. The x86 transforms them on floats on
> reading them from RAM. The same for ARM.
> 
> They reduce the size of the data at the expense of precision. For many
> applications that can be a bonus, it depends.
> 

I'm somewhat interested in them, since their implementation could be
cosiderably faster than float/double on machines without hardware
support for floating-point operations. Typical examples would be most
8-bit µCs.

Philipp

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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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