short float

From	Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>
Newsgroups	comp.std.c
Subject	short float
Date	2019-10-28 11:58 +0100
Organization	solani.org
Message-ID	<qp6hju$j8h$1@solani.org> (permalink)

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While the idea of a short float was viewed favorably by the comitee a
few years ago, in London, the authors never followed up with a detailed
proposal.

I'd like to see short float in C, not just because a lot of hardware
supports it, but also as a relatively efficient floating-point type for
devices that don't have hardware support for floating-point at all:

http://www.colecovision.eu/stuff/proposal-short-float.html

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short float Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2019-10-28 11:58 +0100
  Re: short float Dave Brower <dbrower@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 11:21 -0800
    Re: short float Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 13:09 -0800
    Re: short float Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2020-12-12 14:49 +0100
      Re: short float jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-12-13 13:42 +0100

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