Split codegen support in storage and arithmetic.

src/bfloat16.jl

@@ -15,11 +15,32 @@ import Base: isfinite, isnan, precision, iszero, eps,
     asinh, acosh, atanh, acsch, asech, acoth,
     bitstring, isinteger
 
-# Julia 1.11 provides codegen support for BFloat16
-const codegen_support = if isdefined(Core, :BFloat16) &&
-                           Sys.ARCH in [:x86_64, :i686]
+# LLVM 11 added support for BFloat16 in the IR; Julia 1.11 added support for generating
+# code that uses the `bfloat` IR type, together with the necessary runtime functions.
+# However, not all LLVM targets support `bfloat`. If the target can store/load BFloat16s
+# (and supports synthesizing constants) we can use the `bfloat` IR type, otherwise we fall
+# back to defining a primitive type that will be represented as an `i16`. If, in addition,
+# the target supports BFloat16 arithmetic, we can use LLVM intrinsics.
+# - x86: storage and arithmetic support in LLVM 15
+# - aarch64: storage support in LLVM 17
+const llvm_storage = if isdefined(Core, :BFloat16)
+    if Sys.ARCH in [:x86_64, :i686] && Base.libllvm_version >= v"15"
+        true
+    elseif Sys.ARCH == :aarch64 && Base.libllvm_version >= v"17"
+        true
+    else
+        false
+    end
+else
+    false
+end
+const llvm_arithmetic = if llvm_storage
     using Core: BFloat16
-    true
+    if Sys.ARCH in [:x86_64, :i686] && Base.libllvm_version >= v"15"
+        true
+    else
+        false
+    end
 else
     primitive type BFloat16 <: AbstractFloat 16 end
     false
@@ -76,7 +97,7 @@ precision(::Type{BFloat16}) = 8
 eps(::Type{BFloat16}) = Base.bitcast(BFloat16, 0x3c00)
 
 ## Rounding ##
-if codegen_support
+if llvm_arithmetic
     round(x::BFloat16, ::RoundingMode{:ToZero})  = Base.trunc_llvm(x)
     round(x::BFloat16, ::RoundingMode{:Down})    = Base.floor_llvm(x)
     round(x::BFloat16, ::RoundingMode{:Up})      = Base.ceil_llvm(x)
@@ -118,7 +139,7 @@ Base.trunc(::Type{BFloat16}, x::Float32) = reinterpret(BFloat16,
         (reinterpret(UInt32, x) >> 16) % UInt16
     )
 
-if codegen_support
+if llvm_arithmetic
     BFloat16(x::Float32) = Base.fptrunc(BFloat16, x)
     BFloat16(x::Float64) = Base.fptrunc(BFloat16, x)
 
@@ -147,7 +168,7 @@ else
 end
 
 # Conversion from Integer
-if codegen_support
+if llvm_arithmetic
     for st in (Int8, Int16, Int32, Int64)
         @eval begin
             BFloat16(x::($st)) = Base.sitofp(BFloat16, x)
@@ -170,7 +191,7 @@ function Base.Float16(x::BFloat16)
     Float16(Float32(x))
 end
 
-if codegen_support
+if llvm_arithmetic
     Base.Float32(x::BFloat16) = Base.fpext(Float32, x)
     Base.Float64(x::BFloat16) = Base.fpext(Float64, x)
 else
@@ -186,7 +207,7 @@ else
 end
 
 # Basic arithmetic
-if codegen_support
+if llvm_arithmetic
     +(x::T, y::T) where {T<:BFloat16} = Base.add_float(x, y)
     -(x::T, y::T) where {T<:BFloat16} = Base.sub_float(x, y)
     *(x::T, y::T) where {T<:BFloat16} = Base.mul_float(x, y)
@@ -238,7 +259,7 @@ end
 Base.widemul(x::BFloat16, y::BFloat16) = widen(x) * widen(y)
 
 # Truncation to integer types
-if codegen_support
+if llvm_arithmetic
     for Ti in (Int8, Int16, Int32, Int64)
         @eval begin
             Base.unsafe_trunc(::Type{$Ti}, x::BFloat16) = Base.fptosi($Ti, x)

test/runtests.jl

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 using Test, BFloat16s, Printf, Random
 
+@info "Testing BFloat16s" BFloat16s.llvm_storage BFloat16s.llvm_arithmetic
+
 @testset "comparisons" begin
     @test BFloat16(1)   <  BFloat16(2)
     @test BFloat16(1f0) <  BFloat16(2f0)