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[APFloat] Add APFloat support for E8M0 type (#107127)
This patch adds an APFloat type for unsigned E8M0 format. This format is
used for representing the "scale-format" in the MX specification:
(section 5.4)
https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-microscaling-formats-mx-v1-0-spec-final-pdf
This format does not support {Inf, denorms, zeroes}. Like FP32, this
format's exponents are 8-bits (all bits here) and the bias value is 127.
However, it differs from IEEE-FP32 in that the minExponent is -127
(instead of -126). There are updates done in the APFloat utility
functions to handle these constraints for this format.
* The bias calculation is different and convertIEEE* APIs are updated to
handle this.
* Since there are no significand bits, the isSignificandAll{Zeroes/Ones}
methods are updated accordingly.
* Although the format does not have any precision, the precision bit in
the fltSemantics is set to 1 for consistency with APFloat's internal
representation.
* Many utility functions are updated to handle the fact that this format
does not support Zero.
* Provide a separate initFromAPInt() implementation to handle the quirks
of the format.
* Add specific tests to verify the range of values for this format.
Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R <[email protected]>
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