Implementing C23 _Float16 in ImportC

[user1234]

On Tuesday, 14 January 2025 at 06:13:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> _Float16 is new in C23 Appendix H.11-6
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> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/20516
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> For the moment, I submitted a PR with a workaround:
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> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/20699
>
> Amazingly, some years ago I implemented 16 bit floats in D:
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> https://github.com/DigitalMars/sargon/blob/master/src/sargon/halffloat.d
>
> Would anyone like to put halffloat.d into Druntime and make it 
> our implementation of _Float16?

that is the obvious way for dmd.