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new 62cf42b507 MINOR: [Docs] document Float16 support in C++ (#38494)
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commit 62cf42b5074a851a59438ec43177684ed1aac660
Author: Anja Kefala <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 16 05:57:12 2023 -0500
MINOR: [Docs] document Float16 support in C++ (#38494)
### Rationale for this change
There is, at least, partial halffloat support in Arrow C++. A reason to not
merge this is that there is still quite a bit casting work to be completed:
* https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20213
* https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32802
Authored-by: anjakefala <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]>
---
docs/source/status.rst | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/source/status.rst b/docs/source/status.rst
index c059ab3cef..fee9a27b6c 100644
--- a/docs/source/status.rst
+++ b/docs/source/status.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Data Types
+-------------------+-------+-------+-------+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| UInt8/16/32/64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
| ✓ |
+-------------------+-------+-------+-------+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
-| Float16 | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (1)| ✓ | ✓
| |
+| Float16 | ✓ (1) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (2)| ✓ | ✓
| |
+-------------------+-------+-------+-------+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Float32/64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
| ✓ |
+-------------------+-------+-------+-------+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Data Types
| Data type | C++ | Java | Go | JavaScript | C# | Rust |
Julia | Swift |
| (special) | | | | | | |
| |
+===================+=======+=======+=======+============+=======+=======+=======+=======+
-| Dictionary | ✓ | ✓ (2) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (2) | ✓ (2) | ✓
| |
+| Dictionary | ✓ | ✓ (3) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (3) | ✓ (3) | ✓
| |
+-------------------+-------+-------+-------+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Extension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | ✓
| |
+-------------------+-------+-------+-------+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
@@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ Data Types
Notes:
-* \(1) Float16 support in C# is only available when targeting .NET 6+.
-* \(2) Nested dictionaries not supported
+* \(1) Casting to/from Float16 in C++ is not supported.
+* \(2) Float16 support in C# is only available when targeting .NET 6+.
+* \(3) Nested dictionaries not supported
.. seealso::
The :ref:`format_columnar` specification.
