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| 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 |
| Organization | solani.org |
| Message-ID | <p3q3am$cd4$1@solani.org> (permalink) |
| References | <p3nt6t$uid$1@solani.org> <p3o61s$66s$1@dont-email.me> |
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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