Implement a float16 directive for assembling 16 bit IEEE 754 floating point numbers...

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gas / doc / c-aarch64.texi

diff --git a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
index 5c66fa6026a2039a1ff4b6f9ab34de03e8394274..2c236e2c84a202598dcd16e70e4924e64575dcd8 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
@@ -358,6 +358,14 @@ The @code{.even} directive aligns the output on the next even byte
 boundary.
 
 @c FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
+
+@cindex @code{.float16} directive, AArch64
+@item .float16 @var{value [,...,value_n]}
+Place the half precision floating point representation of one or more
+floating-point values into the current section.
+The format used to encode the floating point values is always the
+IEEE 754-2008 half precision floating point format.
+
 @c GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
 @c HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 @c IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII