[lworld] RFR: 8339252: Add method float16Value() to BigInteger and BigDecimal

[Raffaello Giulietti]

I erroneously had my PR in lworld.
It is now in lworld+fp16.


Greetings
Raffaello


On 2024-08-30 14:53, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> This patch adds `float16Value()` to `BigInteger` and `BigDecimal`, as well as `Float16.valueOf(BigDecimal)`.
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> Commit messages:
>   - 8339252: Add method float16Value() to BigInteger and BigDecimal
>   - Added valueOf(BigDecimal).
>   - Merge lworld
>   - 8334432: Refine Float16.fma
>   - 8337605: Update description of constants in Float16
>   - 8338102: x86 backend support for newly added Float16 intrinsics.
>   - 8336406: Add support for FP16 binary operations
>   - 8330021: AArch64: Add backend support for FP16 add operation
>   - 8333852: Allow flat array layout for value based classes.
>   - 8329817: Augment prototype Float16 class
>   - ... and 5 more: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/compare/e19d6796...01418c65
> 
> Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1228/files
>    Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=1228&range=00
>    Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8339252
>    Stats: 5810 lines in 78 files changed: 4998 ins; 4 del; 808 mod
>    Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1228.diff
>    Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/1228/head:pull/1228
> 
> PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1228