gas/flonum.h

   1 /* flonum.h - Floating point package
   2
   3    Copyright (C) 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5    This file is part of GAS, the GNU Assembler.
   6
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   9    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  10    any later version.
  11
  12    GAS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  13    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  14    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  15    GNU General Public License for more details.
  16
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  18    along with GAS; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  19    the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, 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 {
  53   LITTLENUM_TYPE *low;          /* low order littlenum of a bignum */
  54   LITTLENUM_TYPE *high;         /* high order littlenum of a bignum */
  55   LITTLENUM_TYPE *leader;       /* -> 1st non-zero littlenum */
  56   /* If flonum is 0.0, leader==low-1 */
  57   long exponent;                /* base LITTLENUM_RADIX */
  58   char sign;                    /* '+' or '-' */
  59 };
  60
  61 typedef struct FLONUM_STRUCT FLONUM_TYPE;
  62
  63
  64 /***********************************************************************\
  65  *                                                                      *
  66  *      Since we can (& do) meet with exponents like 10^5000, it        *
  67  *      is silly to make a table of ~ 10,000 entries, one for each      *
  68  *      power of 10. We keep a table where item [n] is a struct         *
  69  *      FLONUM_FLOATING_POINT representing 10^(2^n). We then            *
  70  *      multiply appropriate entries from this table to get any         *
  71  *      particular power of 10. For the example of 10^5000, a table     *
  72  *      of just 25 entries suffices: 10^(2^-12)...10^(2^+12).           *
  73  *                                                                      *
  74  \***********************************************************************/
  75
  76
  77 extern const FLONUM_TYPE flonum_positive_powers_of_ten[];
  78 extern const FLONUM_TYPE flonum_negative_powers_of_ten[];
  79 extern const int table_size_of_flonum_powers_of_ten;
  80 /* Flonum_XXX_powers_of_ten[] table has */
  81 /* legal indices from 0 to */
  82 /* + this number inclusive. */
  83
  84
  85
  86 /***********************************************************************\
  87  *                                                                      *
  88  *      Declare worker functions.                                       *
  89  *                                                                      *
  90  \***********************************************************************/
  91
  92 int atof_generic PARAMS ((char **address_of_string_pointer,
  93                           const char *string_of_decimal_marks,
  94                           const char *string_of_decimal_exponent_marks,
  95                           FLONUM_TYPE * address_of_generic_floating_point_number));
  96
  97 void flonum_copy PARAMS ((FLONUM_TYPE * in, FLONUM_TYPE * out));
  98 void flonum_multip PARAMS ((const FLONUM_TYPE * a, const FLONUM_TYPE * b,
  99                             FLONUM_TYPE * product));
 100
 101 /***********************************************************************\
 102  *                                                                      *
 103  *      Declare error codes.                                            *
 104  *                                                                      *
 105  \***********************************************************************/
 106
 107 #define ERROR_EXPONENT_OVERFLOW (2)
 108
 109 /* end of flonum.h */