<QFloat16> - 16-bit Floating Point Support

The <QFloat16> header file provides 16-bit floating point support. More...

This documentation was introduced in Qt 5.9.

This header file provides support for half-precision (16-bit) floating point data with the class qfloat16. It is fully compliant with IEEE 754 as a storage type. This implies that any arithmetic operation on a qfloat16 instance results in the value first being converted to a float. This conversion to and from float is performed by hardware when possible, but on processors that do not natively support half-precision, the conversion is performed through a sequence of lookup table operations.

qfloat16 should be treated as if it were a POD (plain old data) type. Consequently, none of the supported operations need any elaboration beyond stating that it supports all arithmetic operators incident to floating point types.