GNU bug report logs - #68871
Can't use od to print half-precision floats

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, "Rozenberg, Eyal (Consultant)" <Eyal.Rozenberg <at> gehealthcare.com>, 68871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68871: Can't use od to print half-precision floats
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 11:08:18 -0800

Thanks for writing that. One suggestion I'd make is to change this:

 #ifndef FLT16_MAX
 /* This is just a place-holder to avoid a few '#if' directives.
    In this case, the type isn't actually used.  */
 typedef float _Float16;
 #endif

to something like this:

 #ifdef FLT16_MAX
 typedef _Float16 float16;
 #else
 /* This is just a place-holder to avoid a few '#if' directives.
    In this case, the type isn't actually used.  */
 typedef float float16;
 #endif

and use 'float16' thereafter. That way, the code doesn't usurp the 
system namespace on older platforms, some of which might define _Float16 
but not FLT16_MAX.

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