RFR: 8289552: Make intrinsic conversions between bit representations of half precision values and floats

[Sandhya Viswanathan]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 23:58:49 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @jddarcy Thanks for your comment. I am not sure if there is a way of using Java library implementation here.
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> I was under the impression that if a platform didn't have special support for the functionality in question it could not have the intrinsic and just use the Java library implementation?

@jddarcy This code is for constant expression evaluation during C2 compilation.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9781