Bug#1049960: ITP: half -- C++ library for half precision floating point arithmetics
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 1:27 PM Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> wrote:
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> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-ai@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name : half
> Version : 2.2.0
> Upstream Author : Christian Rau
> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/half/
> * License : MIT
> Programming Lang: C++
> Description : C++ library for half precision floating point arithmetics
>
> This is a C++ header-only library to provide an IEEE-754 conformant
> half-precision floating point type along with corresponding arithmetic
What's the difference with https://packages.debian.org/sid/libimath-dev ?
> operators, type conversions and common mathematical functions. It aims
> for both efficiency and ease of use, trying to accurately mimic the
> behaviour of the builtin floating point types at the best performance
> possible. It automatically uses and provides C++11 features when
> possible, but stays completely C++98-compatible when neccessary.
I believe gcc+c++20 provides _Float16 already. Who needs c++98 compat ?
> This is needed by MIOpen, which is also in the process of being
> packaged.
>
> This will be maintained by the Debian ROCm Team.
>
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