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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	"Rozenberg, Eyal (Consultant)" <Eyal.Rozenberg@gehealthcare.com>,
	68871@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68871: Can't use od to print half-precision floats
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 13:37:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478107a3-2e6d-f74f-0557-4591781d6854@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6959901c-42b5-48f7-a464-1431812c7b3c@cs.ucla.edu>

On 04/02/2024 21:59, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks. One minor comment about this:
> 
>> +@item B
>> +brain 16 bit float
>> +@item H
>> +half precision float
> 
> It might be helpful explain these two formats, e.g., to cite:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format
> 
> and
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_format
> 
> respectively, since the formats are new compared to the other formats
> being discussed.

Good call.
I added those references and pushed.

cheers,
Pádraig.





      reply	other threads:[~2024-02-05 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-01 12:43 bug#68871: Can't use od to print half-precision floats Rozenberg, Eyal (Consultant)
2024-02-01 12:58 ` bug#68872: " Rozenberg, Eyal (Consultant)
2024-02-01 18:05 ` bug#68871: " Pádraig Brady
2024-02-01 19:08   ` Paul Eggert
2024-02-01 19:16     ` Paul Eggert
2024-02-01 21:59       ` Pádraig Brady
2024-02-02  1:47         ` Paul Eggert
2024-02-02 14:35           ` Rozenberg, Eyal (Consultant)
2024-02-04 15:00           ` Pádraig Brady
2024-02-04 21:59             ` Paul Eggert
2024-02-05 13:37               ` Pádraig Brady [this message]

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