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[APFloat] Add APFloat support for E8M0 type
This patch adds an APFloat type for unsigned E8M0 format. This format is used for representing the "scale-format" in the MX specification: 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 <durgadossr@nvidia.com>
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