On 13-07-02 02:25 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Graydon Hoare <[email protected]> wrote: >>> (and absent people saying they need it, it isn't like it would be the >>> sort of thing that would be hard to add to a later version of the >>> language) >> >> No, it's conceivable, just .. sigh. I would not want to go there. I >> guess it makes sense on pre-SSE x86 targets also, however long those >> live on. >> > > doomlord in irc said f16 (llvm's `half` type) would be very useful for > graphics. LLVM already exposes fp128 for f128, so it /shouldn't/ be > that difficult to support. Going farther into the land of f256 would > be quite difficult though.
Yeah, f16 shows up in image formats. Might consider trying to support it. I believe both it and f128 always map to softfp at this point, that no hardware supports it. f256 is not specified as a basic format in 754-2008, I wouldn't worry about it. -Graydon _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
