From 4adab9f63cd1d7a039e799f2b532926cb9bb2cca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:40:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make from_bits and as_native_float public

Expose these two methods to enable custom float format encode/decode
for user-defined Semantics without reimplementing IEEE 754 bit packing.
---
 src/cast.rs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cast.rs b/src/cast.rs
index 6774b39..ee0b38f 100644
--- a/src/cast.rs
+++ b/src/cast.rs
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ impl Float {
         }
     }
 
-    fn from_bits(sem: Semantics, float: u64) -> Self {
+    pub fn from_bits(sem: Semantics, float: u64) -> Self {
         // Extract the biased exponent (wipe the sign and mantissa).
         let biased_exp = ((float >> sem.get_mantissa_len())
             & mask(sem.get_exponent_len()) as u64)
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ impl Float {
         self.cast_with_rm(to, self.get_rounding_mode())
     }
 
-    fn as_native_float(&self) -> u64 {
+    pub fn as_native_float(&self) -> u64 {
         // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
         let mantissa: u64;
         let mut exp: u64;