On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 09:09:16 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is `Float16Vector::toString` supposed to return short values in the list? Or >> should they be formatted as floats? > >> Is `Float16Vector::toString` supposed to return short values in the list? Or >> should they be formatted as floats? > > jshell> import jdk.incubator.vector.* > jshell> Float16Vector.broadcast(Float16Vector.SPECIES_512, > Float.floatToFloat16(1.2f)) > $4 ==> [15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, > 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, > 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565, 15565] > > > We print the short values from backing storage which encodes IEEE 754 > binary16 values. @jatin-bhateja @PaulSandoz I suppose it is consistent: `toString`, `toArray` etc all produce `short[]` style results. It's not very nice to read when you see it first, but I suppose one can always do the conversion to float manually. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28002#issuecomment-4647231384
