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

[Joe Darcy]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 16:36:23 GMT, Smita Kamath <svkamath at openjdk.org> wrote:

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

src/hotspot/share/runtime/sharedRuntime.cpp line 450:

> 448: JRT_END
> 449: 
> 450: JRT_LEAF(jshort, SharedRuntime::f2hf(jfloat  x))

Is it necessary/desirable to have a transliteration of the Java implementation here rather than just using the Java library implementation?

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