Tracking Issue for `bf16` type in stdarch avx512

[sayantn]

Feature gate: #![feature(stdarch_x86_avx512_bf16)]

This is a tracking issue for the bf16 type in stdarch. This is just a wrapper around u16, but it makes the intrinsic signatures more readable.

Public API

The bf16 type in core::arch::x86 and core::arch::x86_64, and its associated functions in avx512bf16 and avxneconvert

Steps / History

• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

• None yet.

Footnotes

1. https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/feature-lifecycle/stabilization.html ↩