Merge pull request #5916 from amitmurthy/amitm/f16

make float16 serializable/deserializable
JuliaLang · Feb 23, 2014 · 46fa6ea · 46fa6ea
2 parents 16f5fd9 + 3d85ccd
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diff --git a/base/io.jl b/base/io.jl
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ function read{T <: Integer}(s::IO, ::Type{T})
 end
 
 read(s::IO, ::Type{Bool})    = (read(s,Uint8)!=0)
+read(s::IO, ::Type{Float16}) = box(Float16,unbox(Int16,read(s,Int16)))
 read(s::IO, ::Type{Float32}) = box(Float32,unbox(Int32,read(s,Int32)))
 read(s::IO, ::Type{Float64}) = box(Float64,unbox(Int64,read(s,Int64)))