First cut at a prototype of an FP8 type, this one with 5 exponent bits and 2 significand (mantissa) bits.
The base conversion functionality is not fully ported over. ------------- Commit messages: - Appease jcheck. - JDK-8380667: Prototype FP8_E5M2 Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2259/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=2259&range=00 Stats: 3648 lines in 2 files changed: 3648 ins; 0 del; 0 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2259.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/2259/head:pull/2259 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2259
