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

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Message #20 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 17:47:29 -0800

On 2/1/24 13:59, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
> bfloat16 looks like a truncated single precision IEEE,
> so we should be able to just pad the extra 16 bits with zeros
> when converting to single precision internally for processing.

Sounds good. This would mean od could work even the platform doesn't 
support bfloat16_t, since od.c could fall back on the above code (though 
I suppose it could be endianness-dependent).

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