From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>,
Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>, Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>,
<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] c++: Implement P1467R9 - Extended floating-point types and standard names compiler part except for bfloat16 [PR106652]
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:36:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2209121927040.3025938@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yx7oXsjWwmgsaj/A@tucnak>
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches wrote:
> Now, I guess for the fixincludes it could also use
> # if !__GNUC_PREREQ (7, 0) || (defined __cplusplus && !__GNUC_PREREQ (13, 0))
> where earlier GCC 13 snapshots would not be doing the fixincludes,
> but the question is what to use for upstream glibc, because
> there will be 13.0 snapshots where C++ doesn't support _Float{16,32,64,128}
> and where it is essential to use what glibc has been doing previously
> and using the #else would fail miserably, and then 13.0 snapshots where it
> does support it and where using the if would fail miserably.
We don't claim in glibc to support old snapshots from master, so checking
for __GNUC_PREREQ (13, 0) and failing for such older GCC 13 versions is
fine.
> Conversion from BFmode to SFmode is easy, left shift by 16 and ought to be
> implemented inline, SFmode -> BFmode conversion is harder,
Properly the right way for converting from BFmode to SFmode in the
presence of -fsignaling-nans should depend on how the result is used. If
it's used for arithmetic, it's OK to have converted a BFmode signaling NaN
to an SFmode signaling NaN, but if e.g. the result is examined with
issignaling or otherwise stored so it may be significant later whether the
result is a quiet or signaling NaN, IEEE semantics would mean a signaling
NaN should be a converted to a quiet NaN with "invalid" raised. Though I
don't know how far hardware instructions for BFmode attempt to follow IEEE
semantics.
(Cf. powerpc single-precision load instructions whose effect is defined as
a purely bitwise conversion from single to double precision, so that
single-precision load and store of a signaling NaN never end up converting
it to a quiet NaN even though the in-register format is double precision.)
> (untested) and the question is if it should be implemented in libgcc
> (and using soft-fp or not), or inline, or both depending on -Os.
Also if you try to do a direct conversion between BFmode and HFmode,
soft-fp's current support for conversions may not handle that case (where
one type has wider exponent range and other type has higher precision).
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-12 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-12 8:05 Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-12 19:36 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2022-09-12 20:52 ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-12 21:00 ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-13 17:50 ` Joseph Myers
2022-09-16 11:48 ` Jason Merrill
2022-09-16 17:34 ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-17 8:58 ` Jason Merrill
2022-09-19 16:39 ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-26 21:15 ` Jason Merrill
2022-09-26 22:11 ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-20 3:35 ` Hongtao Liu
2022-09-20 7:14 ` Hongtao Liu
2022-09-20 8:51 ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-22 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH] __trunc{tf,xf,df,sf,hf}bf2, __truncbfhf2 and __extendbfsf2 Jakub Jelinek
2022-09-23 0:44 ` Hongtao Liu
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