bfloat16 in anticipation for hardware implementation.

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Proposals for the Fortran Standard Committee

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bfloat16 in anticipation for hardware implementation. #166

Open srinathv opened 4 years ago

srinathv commented 4 years ago

In light of possible hardware coming to the market with bfloat16 implemented what is the desire for the fortran community to support bfloat16? If not in the standard, is there a preferred way to approximate (or downcast)?

certik commented 4 years ago

@srinathv thanks a lot for the proposal. Note that it's a duplicate of #3.