I think that there might be some licensing issues. All user contributions on SO are licensed under CC-BY-SA (unless stated otherwise obv), which is incompatible with MIT.

@riteo sorry didn't knew that. Not sure how to handle that. Since i understand it, i could refactor to make it less like the original answer but i feel like it's cheating.

He links his research paper which his SO post is based on, but it's hard to say what kind of copyright it has. Some educational institutions can have pretty liberal licenses for their research data, but you'd have to dig a bit. Or maybe even ask the person directly if they or any of the co-authors are allowed to re-license the code snippets.

However, he also seems to run this project: https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D, which has this pretty limiting (custom?) license: https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D/blob/master/LICENSE.md. Seems there is similar code in this file: https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D/blob/master/src/kernel.cpp

We could always do a direct port of make_half_float() and half_to_float()

@clayjohn i agree.
Having second thoughts, maybe could even simplify and only check the case of exponent == 0, the rest may be overengineering for that case since the half float limitation is explicit for Compatibility renderer.

@clayjohn i agree. Having second thoughts, maybe could even simplify and only check the case of exponent == 0, the rest may be overengineering for that case since the half float limitation is explicit for Compatibility renderer.

Indeed, there may be an easy workaround here. Also these functions are not exposed to users, they are just used to implement pack/unpackHalf2x16

Superseded by #72914