The `half_float` test was failing with `-mcpu=cortex-a55` (native `__fp16`) due
to a bad NaN bit-pattern comparison (in the case of casting a float to `__fp16`,
the signaling `NaN` is quieted). There was also an inconsistency between
`numeric_limits<half>::quiet_NaN()` and `NumTraits::quiet_NaN()`. Here we
correct the inconsistency and compare NaNs according to the IEEE 754
definition.
Also modified the `bfloat16_float` test to match.
Tested with `cortex-a53` and `cortex-a55`.
The existing `TensorRandom.h` implementation makes the assumption that
`half` (`bfloat16`) has a `uint16_t` member `x` (`value`), which is not
always true. This currently fails on arm64, where `x` has type `__fp16`.
Added `bit_cast` specializations to allow casting to/from `uint16_t`
for both `half` and `bfloat16`. Also added tests in
`half_float`, `bfloat16_float`, and `cxx11_tensor_random` to catch
these errors in the future.
Armv8.2-a provides a native half-precision floating point (__fp16 aka.
float16_t). This patch introduces
* __fp16 as underlying type of Eigen::half if this type is available
* the packet types Packet4hf and Packet8hf representing float16x4_t and
float16x8_t respectively
* packet-math for the above packets with corresponding scalar type Eigen::half
The packet-math functionality has been implemented by Ashutosh Sharma
<ashutosh.sharma@amperecomputing.com>.
This closes#1940.
This provide several advantages:
- more flexibility in designing unit tests
- unit tests can be glued to speed up compilation
- unit tests are compiled with same predefined macros, which is a requirement for zapcc
There are two major changes (and a few minor ones which are not listed here...see PR discussion for details)
1. Eigen::half implementations for HIP and CUDA have been merged.
This means that
- `CUDA/Half.h` and `HIP/hcc/Half.h` got merged to a new file `GPU/Half.h`
- `CUDA/PacketMathHalf.h` and `HIP/hcc/PacketMathHalf.h` got merged to a new file `GPU/PacketMathHalf.h`
- `CUDA/TypeCasting.h` and `HIP/hcc/TypeCasting.h` got merged to a new file `GPU/TypeCasting.h`
After this change the `HIP/hcc` directory only contains one file `math_constants.h`. That will go away too once that file becomes a part of the HIP install.
2. new macros EIGEN_GPUCC, EIGEN_GPU_COMPILE_PHASE and EIGEN_HAS_GPU_FP16 have been added and the code has been updated to use them where appropriate.
- `EIGEN_GPUCC` is the same as `(EIGEN_CUDACC || EIGEN_HIPCC)`
- `EIGEN_GPU_DEVICE_COMPILE` is the same as `(EIGEN_CUDA_ARCH || EIGEN_HIP_DEVICE_COMPILE)`
- `EIGEN_HAS_GPU_FP16` is the same as `(EIGEN_HAS_CUDA_FP16 or EIGEN_HAS_HIP_FP16)`
