If I try to use the od utility to print half-precision (FP16) floating-point values, I get:

$ od -t f2 myfloats.bin

od: invalid type string ‘f2’;

this system doesn't provide a 2-byte floating point type

I’m not exactly sure what “this system” means, but that should work and print out my floats.

Eyal

PS – This is my first bug-coreutils post, please be gentle.