Subject: bug#68871: Can't use od to print half-precision floats

From: "Rozenberg, Eyal (Consultant)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 12:43:47 +0000

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.