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Half-precision floating-point conversions use non-standard extended range #16

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walbourn opened this issue Jun 9, 2016 · 1 comment
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Half-precision floating-point conversions use non-standard extended range #16

walbourn opened this issue Jun 9, 2016 · 1 comment
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walbourn commented Jun 9, 2016

XMConvertFloatToHalf and XMConvertHalfToFloat implement the Xbox 360 variant rather than the standard IEEE 754 variant (which impacts all the half functions). This means numbers larger than +/-65504 map to QNAN rather than INF on non-Xbox 360 platforms.
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walbourn commented Jun 9, 2016

This is fixed in DirectXMath 3.04

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