Subject: Re: binary/character floating point conversion
To: J.T. Conklin <jtc@acorntoolworks.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/04/2005 10:15:03
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:51:08PM -0800, J.T. Conklin wrote:

> It's part of the gdtoa distribution: ftp://ftp.netlib.org/fp/gdtoa.tgz.

It also compiles standalone, I've attached the source.

Here are some results:

sparc64:
--8<--
#define IEEE_MC68k
#define Arith_Kind_ASL 2
#define Long int
#define Intcast (int)(long)
#define Double_Align
#define X64_bit_pointers
-->8--

sgimips:
--8<--
#define IEEE_MC68k
#define Arith_Kind_ASL 2
#define Double_Align
-->8--

arm:
--8<--
#define IEEE_8087
#define Arith_Kind_ASL 1
-->8--

sparc:
--8<--
#define IEEE_MC68k
#define Arith_Kind_ASL 2
#define Double_Align
-->8--

Martin

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/* Try to deduce arith.h from arithmetic properties. */

#include <stdio.h>

 static int dalign;
 typedef struct
Akind {
	char *name;
	int   kind;
	} Akind;

 static Akind
IEEE_8087	= { "IEEE_8087", 1 },
IEEE_MC68k	= { "IEEE_MC68k", 2 },
IBM		= { "IBM", 3 },
VAX		= { "VAX", 4 },
CRAY		= { "CRAY", 5};

 static Akind *
Lcheck()
{
	union {
		double d;
		long L[2];
		} u;
	struct {
		double d;
		long L;
		} x[2];

	if (sizeof(x) > 2*(sizeof(double) + sizeof(long)))
		dalign = 1;
	u.L[0] = u.L[1] = 0;
	u.d = 1e13;
	if (u.L[0] == 1117925532 && u.L[1] == -448790528)
		return &IEEE_MC68k;
	if (u.L[1] == 1117925532 && u.L[0] == -448790528)
		return &IEEE_8087;
	if (u.L[0] == -2065213935 && u.L[1] == 10752)
		return &VAX;
	if (u.L[0] == 1267827943 && u.L[1] == 704643072)
		return &IBM;
	return 0;
	}

 static Akind *
icheck()
{
	union {
		double d;
		int L[2];
		} u;
	struct {
		double d;
		int L;
		} x[2];

	if (sizeof(x) > 2*(sizeof(double) + sizeof(int)))
		dalign = 1;
	u.L[0] = u.L[1] = 0;
	u.d = 1e13;
	if (u.L[0] == 1117925532 && u.L[1] == -448790528)
		return &IEEE_MC68k;
	if (u.L[1] == 1117925532 && u.L[0] == -448790528)
		return &IEEE_8087;
	if (u.L[0] == -2065213935 && u.L[1] == 10752)
		return &VAX;
	if (u.L[0] == 1267827943 && u.L[1] == 704643072)
		return &IBM;
	return 0;
	}

char *emptyfmt = "";	/* avoid possible warning message with printf("") */

 static Akind *
ccheck()
{
	union {
		double d;
		long L;
		} u;
	long Cray1;

	/* Cray1 = 4617762693716115456 -- without overflow on non-Crays */
	Cray1 = printf(emptyfmt) < 0 ? 0 : 4617762;
	if (printf(emptyfmt, Cray1) >= 0)
		Cray1 = 1000000*Cray1 + 693716;
	if (printf(emptyfmt, Cray1) >= 0)
		Cray1 = 1000000*Cray1 + 115456;
	u.d = 1e13;
	if (u.L == Cray1)
		return &CRAY;
	return 0;
	}

 static int
fzcheck()
{
	double a, b;
	int i;

	a = 1.;
	b = .1;
	for(i = 155;; b *= b, i >>= 1) {
		if (i & 1) {
			a *= b;
			if (i == 1)
				break;
			}
		}
	b = a * a;
	return b == 0.;
	}

 int
main()
{
	Akind *a = 0;
	int Ldef = 0;
	FILE *f;

#ifdef WRITE_ARITH_H	/* for Symantec's buggy "make" */
	f = fopen("arith.h", "w");
	if (!f) {
		printf("Cannot open arith.h\n");
		return 1;
		}
#else
	f = stdout;
#endif

	if (sizeof(double) == 2*sizeof(long))
		a = Lcheck();
	else if (sizeof(double) == 2*sizeof(int)) {
		Ldef = 1;
		a = icheck();
		}
	else if (sizeof(double) == sizeof(long))
		a = ccheck();
	if (a) {
		fprintf(f, "#define %s\n#define Arith_Kind_ASL %d\n",
			a->name, a->kind);
		if (Ldef)
			fprintf(f, "#define Long int\n#define Intcast (int)(long)\n");
		if (dalign)
			fprintf(f, "#define Double_Align\n");
		if (sizeof(char*) == 8)
			fprintf(f, "#define X64_bit_pointers\n");
#ifndef NO_LONG_LONG
		if (sizeof(long long) < 8)
#endif
			fprintf(f, "#define NO_LONG_LONG\n");
		if (a->kind <= 2 && fzcheck())
			fprintf(f, "#define Sudden_Underflow\n");
		return 0;
		}
	fprintf(f, "/* Unknown arithmetic */\n");
	return 1;
	}

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