half and quad

[Anders F Björklund]

Olifant wrote:

> The keyword "cent" is reserved for 128-bit integers. Could "half" and "quad" be reserved for respectively 16-bit and 128-bit floating point numbers?

I don't think there is any hope for quad or cent, until they're
implemented on standard processors... (i.e ones that run Windows)

But I do have a port of "half" (from OpenEXR) kicking around here
somewhere, it's basically using ushort and converts over to float.

See http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/31899.html

--anders