Initial changes in preparation for half-precision fp16 support

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/internal/tuning.h b/include/internal/tuning.h
index 5645a5e5..6ba1db61 100644
--- a/include/internal/tuning.h
+++ b/include/internal/tuning.h
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
 #include <cltune.h>
 
+#include "internal/utilities.h"
+
 namespace clblast {
 // =================================================================================================
 
diff --git a/include/internal/utilities.h b/include/internal/utilities.h
index 82cd7f44..46d9b8f1 100644
--- a/include/internal/utilities.h
+++ b/include/internal/utilities.h
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 namespace clblast {
 // =================================================================================================
 
+// Host data-type for half-precision floating-point (16-bit)
+using half = cl_half;
+
 // Shorthands for complex data-types
 using float2 = std::complex<float>;
 using double2 = std::complex<double>;