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