zig/std/special/compiler_rt
Ben Noordhuis fd75e73ee9 add f16 type
Add support for half-precision floating point operations.

Introduce `__extendhfsf2` and `__truncsfhf2` in std/special/compiler_rt.

Add `__gnu_h2f_ieee` and `__gnu_f2h_ieee` as aliases that are used in
Windows builds.

The logic in std/special/compiler_rt/extendXfYf2.zig has been reworked
and can now operate on 16 bits floating point types.

`extendXfYf2()` and `truncXfYf2()` are marked `inline` to work around
a not entirely understood stack alignment issue on Windows when calling
the f16 versions of the builtins.

closes #1122
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This compiler-rt library is ported from LLVM.

It's needed because LLVM emits library calls to compiler-rt when hardware lacks functionality, for example, 64-bit integer multiplication on 32-bit x86.

This library is automatically built as-needed for the compilation target and then statically linked and therefore is a transparent dependency for the programmer.

Any bugs should be solved by trying to duplicate the bug upstream.

  • If the bug exists upstream, get it fixed with the LLVM team and then port the fix downstream to Zig.
  • If the bug only exists in Zig, something went wrong porting the code, and you can run the C code and Zig code side by side in a debugger to figure out what's happening differently.