Re: IEEE Interchange floating point and extended floating point for C++

2021-03-15 Thread Sjoerd Meijer via Gcc
Many thanks for your replies and thoughts on this. I wanted to add that I agree with this, and say that this is the current state in Clang (exactly because of the reason that _Float16 is entirely new): I see less value in adding additional distinct types that don't add anything you can't already

Re: IEEE Interchange floating point and extended floating point for C++

2021-03-12 Thread Sjoerd Meijer via Gcc
Hello GCC, Greetings from Clang community! :-) I implemented _Float16 support in Clang. On the Clang mailing list the request was made if we could rebrand __fp16 to a native half-precision type in Clang, but only for RISC-V. I objected to that for a few different reasons, and learned that the m