Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I used half-float in GPU programming and from my perspective it was > just native. There are no half-float in C, right. But there are > half-floats used in NVIDIA libraries for example and I like to think > used format is native and platform-depended in general. Correct me if > I'm mistaking.
By "native", the struct module means there is a corresponding C type and therefore corresponding rules for size and alignment, as implemented by the C compiler. GPU structure layout is another matter, as the C compiler doesn't target that (not in a standard setup, anyway). Apparently the patch takes the stance that the corresponding C type (for size and alignment) is "short", which I guess is an acceptable compromise, but still a bit weird. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11734> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
