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

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Rozenberg, Eyal (Consultant)" <Eyal.Rozenberg <at> gehealthcare.com>

Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 14:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 68871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#68871: Can't use od to print half-precision floats
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 11:16:42 -0800

Oh, and another thought: suppose someone wants to use od on bfloat16_t 
values? They're popular in machine learning applications, and likely 
will be more popular than float16_t overall. See:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2024-February/154382.html
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