On 12/15/2017 05:37 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On 12/11/2017 09:56 AM, Alex Bennée wrote: >> This defines the same set of common constants for float 16 as defined >> for 32 and 64 bit floats. These are often used by target helper >> functions. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> >> --- >> include/fpu/softfloat.h | 7 +++++++ >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/include/fpu/softfloat.h b/include/fpu/softfloat.h >> index 17dfe60dbd..5a9258c57c 100644 >> --- a/include/fpu/softfloat.h >> +++ b/include/fpu/softfloat.h >> @@ -395,6 +395,13 @@ static inline float16 float16_set_sign(float16 a, int >> sign) >> return make_float16((float16_val(a) & 0x7fff) | (sign << 15)); >> } >> >> +#define float16_zero make_float16(0) > > ok > >> +#define float16_one make_float16(0x3a00) > > I'm a bit confused... > >>>> [np.fromstring(struct.pack("<H", x), dtype=np.float16)[0] for x in > [0, 0x3a00, 0x34d1, 0x4448, 0x3800, 0x7a00]] > [0.0, 0.75, 0.30103, 4.2812, 0.5, 49152.0] > > However: > >>>> ['0x' + binascii.hexlify(np.array([x], '>f2').tostring()) for x in > [0, 1, math.log(2), np.pi, 0.5, np.inf]] > ['0x0000', '0x3c00', '0x398c', '0x4248', '0x3800', '0x7c00'] > > It seems the MSB bit of the mantissa got shifted as the LSB of the > biased exponent... > >> +#define float16_ln2 make_float16(0x34d1) > > incorrect? 0x398c > >> +#define float16_pi make_float16(0x4448) > > incorrect? 0x4248 > >> +#define float16_half make_float16(0x3800) > > ok > >> +#define float16_infinity make_float16(0x7a00) > > incorrect? 0x7c00
All of Phil's numbers are correct -- I double-checked with gcc. Other than 0, 1 and +inf, I doubt any of the others will actually be used. Perhaps we should just leave them out? r~