half

Half-precision floating-point http://github.com/ekmett/half

Version on this page:	0.2.0.1
LTS Haskell 9.0:	0.2.2.3
Stackage Nightly 2017-07-25:	0.2.2.3
Latest on Hackage:	0.2.2.3

BSD3 licensed by Edward A. Kmett

Maintained by Edward A. Kmett

Module documentation for 0.2.0.1

Numeric
- Numeric.Half

half

This package supplies half-precision floating point values w/ 1 bit of sign, 5 bits of exponent, 11 bits of mantissa trailing a leading 1 bit with proper underflow.

These arise commonly in GPU applications.

Contact Information

Contributions and bug reports are welcome!

Please feel free to contact me through github or on the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

-Edward Kmett

Changes

0.2.2.3

Avoid the new warnings for missing pattern synonym signatures on GHC 8

0.2.2.2

Fixed an issue with Storable that was causing crashing for some users.

0.2.2.1

Added support for older GHCs still. unsafeShiftR was only added in 7.4.

0.2.2

Fixed isInfinite.
Added support for older GHCs. On GHC < 7.8 the pattern synonyms are disabled.

0.2.1

Removed need for GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving and ScopedTypeVariables.

0.2.0.1

Fixed source repository location

0.2

Renamed toFloat to fromHalf for easier unqualified use.
Added a Read instance.

0.1.1

Added a CTYPE to the Half declaration so that it can be used with CApiFFI as an unsigned short.

0.1

Initial release

Depends on:

base

Used by 4 packages:

OpenGLRaw, clash-prelude, gl, opengles