If I try to use the od utility to print half-precision (FP16) floating-point values, I get:
$ od -t f2 myfloats.bin od: invalid type string 'f2'; this system doesn't provide a 2-byte floating point type I'm not exactly sure what "this system" means, but that should work and print out my floats. Eyal PS - This is my first bug-coreutils post, please be gentle.