/* auxiliary data to generate special IEEE floats (NaN, +Inf, -Inf) Copyright 1999-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by the AriC and Caramba projects, INRIA. This file is part of the GNU MPFR Library. The GNU MPFR Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU MPFR Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU MPFR Library; see the file COPYING.LESSER. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ /* "double" NaN and infinities are written as explicit bytes to be sure of getting what we want, and to be sure of not depending on libm. Could use 4-byte "float" values and let the code convert them, but it seems more direct to give exactly what we want. Certainly for gcc 3.0.2 on alphaev56-unknown-freebsd4.3 the NaN must be 8-bytes, since that compiler+system was seen incorrectly converting from a "float" NaN. */ #if _MPFR_IEEE_FLOATS /* The "d" field guarantees alignment to a suitable boundary for a double. Could use a union instead, if we checked the compiler supports union initializers. */ union dbl_bytes { unsigned char b[8]; double d; }; #define MPFR_DBL_INFP (dbl_infp.d) #define MPFR_DBL_INFM (dbl_infm.d) #define MPFR_DBL_NAN DBL_NAN /* For NaN, we use DBL_NAN since the memory representation of a NaN depends on the processor: a fixed memory representation could yield either a quiet NaN (qNaN) or a signaling NaN (sNaN). For instance, HP PA-RISC is known to do the opposite way of the usual choice recommended in IEEE 754-2008; see: https://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1788/email/msg03272.html Moreover, the right choice is to generate a qNaN in particular because signaling NaNs are not supported by all compilers (note that the support must be in the compiler used to build the user-end application because this is where the sNaN will be obtained). */ #ifdef HAVE_DOUBLE_IEEE_LITTLE_ENDIAN static const union dbl_bytes dbl_infp = { { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0xF0, 0x7F } }; static const union dbl_bytes dbl_infm = { { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0xF0, 0xFF } }; #endif #ifdef HAVE_DOUBLE_IEEE_BIG_ENDIAN static const union dbl_bytes dbl_infp = { { 0x7F, 0xF0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 } }; static const union dbl_bytes dbl_infm = { { 0xFF, 0xF0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 } }; #endif #else /* _MPFR_IEEE_FLOATS */ #define MPFR_DBL_INFP DBL_POS_INF #define MPFR_DBL_INFM DBL_NEG_INF #define MPFR_DBL_NAN DBL_NAN #endif /* _MPFR_IEEE_FLOATS */