bit in a long double. For architectures that don't have such a bit,
LDBL_NBIT is 0. This makes it possible to say `mantissa & ~LDBL_NBIT'
in places that previously used an #ifdef to select the right expression.
The optimizer should dispense with the extra arithmetic when LDBL_NBIT
is 0.
gcc is using. This fixes devstat consumers (like vmstat, iostat,
systat) so they don't print crazy zillion digit numbers for
disk transfers and bandwidth.
According to gcc, long doubles are 64-bits, rather than 128 bits
like the SVR4 ABI spec wants them to be.. Note that MacOSX also treats
long doubles as 64-bits, and not 128 bits, so we are in good company.
Reviewed by: das
Approved by: grehan
o Add a MD header private to libc called _fpmath.h; this header
contains bitfield layouts of MD floating-point types.
o Add a MI header private to libc called fpmath.h; this header
contains bitfield layouts of MI floating-point types.
o Add private libc variables to lib/libc/$arch/gen/infinity.c for
storing NaN values.
o Add __double_t and __float_t to <machine/_types.h>, and provide
double_t and float_t typedefs in <math.h>.
o Add some C99 manifest constants (FP_ILOGB0, FP_ILOGBNAN, HUGE_VALF,
HUGE_VALL, INFINITY, NAN, and return values for fpclassify()) to
<math.h> and others (FLT_EVAL_METHOD, DECIMAL_DIG) to <float.h> via
<machine/float.h>.
o Add C99 macro fpclassify() which calls __fpclassify{d,f,l}() based
on the size of its argument. __fpclassifyl() is never called on
alpha because (sizeof(long double) == sizeof(double)), which is good
since __fpclassifyl() can't deal with such a small `long double'.
This was developed by David Schultz and myself with input from bde and
fenner.
PR: 23103
Submitted by: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
(significant portions)
Reviewed by: bde, fenner (earlier versions)