use _Float16 only when SSE2 is enabled
authorDmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:35:31 +0000 (19:35 +0200)
committerPino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:35:31 +0000 (19:35 +0200)
commit6c6482f813d48c96c54d8fa5307c7b030574a214
tree9214e10db5262589c4ddfa327fdc44278d89c65f
parent2553b0b8a0acdc07bd1577909cf0060d0763a41c
use _Float16 only when SSE2 is enabled

Forwarded: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/579205
Last-Update: 2024-08-01

The GCC documentation [1] says: “On x86 targets with SSE2 enabled, GCC
supports half-precision (16-bit) floating point via the _Float16 type”.

On non-SSE2 x86 (such as Debian i386 baseline [2]), __FLT16_MAX__ is
defined starting with GCC 14 [3], however any non-trivial use of the
_Float16 type results in an error:

error: operation not permitted on type ‘_Float16’ without option ‘-msse2’

which makes some packages fail to build on i386 architecture [4].

[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Half-Precision.html
[2]: https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo#i386-1
[3]: https://gcc.gnu.org/g:9a19fa8b616f83474c35cc5b34a3865073ced829
[4]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076986

Gbp-Pq: Name use_float16_only_with_sse2.patch
src/corelib/global/qtypes.h