RFR: 8289552: Make intrinsic conversions between bit representations of half precision values and floats [v8]

[Smita Kamath]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 15:59:23 GMT, Paul Sandoz <psandoz at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Smita Kamath has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Addressed review comments
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> Can you please file a follow up issue to write a test (gtest?) for the `f2hf` and `hf2f` methods? If a bug is lurking in those it will otherwise be really hard to track down. (Perhaps an alternative to a gtest is to to somehow call those methods natively from Java using Panama, then we can reuse all the existing testing logic.)

@PaulSandoz - Bug link- https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293323

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