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1 /* flonum.h - Floating point package
2    Copyright (C) 1987-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4    This file is part of GAS, the GNU Assembler.
5
6    GAS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
9    any later version.
10
11    GAS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14    GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17    along with GAS; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
18    Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
19    02110-1301, USA.  */
20
21 /***********************************************************************\
22  *                                                                      *
23  *      Arbitrary-precision floating point arithmetic.                  *
24  *                                                                      *
25  *                                                                      *
26  *      Notation: a floating point number is expressed as               *
27  *      MANTISSA * (2 ** EXPONENT).                                     *
28  *                                                                      *
29  *      If this offends more traditional mathematicians, then           *
30  *      please tell me your nomenclature for flonums!                   *
31  *                                                                      *
32  \***********************************************************************/
33
34 #include "bignum.h"
35
36 /***********************************************************************\
37  *                                                                      *
38  *      Variable precision floating point numbers.                      *
39  *                                                                      *
40  *      Exponent is the place value of the low littlenum. E.g.:         *
41  *      If  0:  low points to the units             littlenum.          *
42  *      If  1:  low points to the LITTLENUM_RADIX   littlenum.          *
43  *      If -1:  low points to the 1/LITTLENUM_RADIX littlenum.          *
44  *                                                                      *
45  \***********************************************************************/
46
47 /* JF:  A sign value of 0 means we have been asked to assemble NaN
48    A sign value of 'P' means we've been asked to assemble +Inf
49    A sign value of 'N' means we've been asked to assemble -Inf
50    */
51 struct FLONUM_STRUCT {
52   LITTLENUM_TYPE *low;          /* low order littlenum of a bignum */
53   LITTLENUM_TYPE *high;         /* high order littlenum of a bignum */
54   LITTLENUM_TYPE *leader;       /* -> 1st non-zero littlenum */
55   /* If flonum is 0.0, leader==low-1 */
56   long exponent;                /* base LITTLENUM_RADIX */
57   char sign;                    /* '+' or '-' */
58 };
59
60 typedef struct FLONUM_STRUCT FLONUM_TYPE;
61
62 /***********************************************************************\
63  *                                                                      *
64  *      Since we can (& do) meet with exponents like 10^5000, it        *
65  *      is silly to make a table of ~ 10,000 entries, one for each      *
66  *      power of 10. We keep a table where item [n] is a struct         *
67  *      FLONUM_FLOATING_POINT representing 10^(2^n). We then            *
68  *      multiply appropriate entries from this table to get any         *
69  *      particular power of 10. For the example of 10^5000, a table     *
70  *      of just 25 entries suffices: 10^(2^-12)...10^(2^+12).           *
71  *                                                                      *
72  \***********************************************************************/
73
74 extern const FLONUM_TYPE flonum_positive_powers_of_ten[];
75 extern const FLONUM_TYPE flonum_negative_powers_of_ten[];
76 extern const int table_size_of_flonum_powers_of_ten;
77 /* Flonum_XXX_powers_of_ten[] table has legal indices from 0 to
78    + this number inclusive.  */
79
80 /***********************************************************************\
81  *                                                                      *
82  *      Declare worker functions.                                       *
83  *                                                                      *
84  \***********************************************************************/
85
86 int atof_generic (char **address_of_string_pointer,
87                   const char *string_of_decimal_marks,
88                   const char *string_of_decimal_exponent_marks,
89                   FLONUM_TYPE * address_of_generic_floating_point_number);
90
91 void flonum_copy (FLONUM_TYPE * in, FLONUM_TYPE * out);
92 void flonum_multip (const FLONUM_TYPE * a, const FLONUM_TYPE * b,
93                     FLONUM_TYPE * product);
94
95 /***********************************************************************\
96  *                                                                      *
97  *      Declare error codes.                                            *
98  *                                                                      *
99  \***********************************************************************/
100
101 #define ERROR_EXPONENT_OVERFLOW (2)