1 /* flonum.h - Floating point package
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21 /***********************************************************************\
23 * Arbitrary-precision floating point arithmetic. *
26 * Notation: a floating point number is expressed as *
27 * MANTISSA * (2 ** EXPONENT). *
29 * If this offends more traditional mathematicians, then *
30 * please tell me your nomenclature for flonums! *
32 \***********************************************************************/
36 /***********************************************************************\
38 * Variable precision floating point numbers. *
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. *
45 \***********************************************************************/
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
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 '-' */
61 typedef struct FLONUM_STRUCT FLONUM_TYPE;
64 /***********************************************************************\
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). *
74 \***********************************************************************/
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. */
86 /***********************************************************************\
88 * Declare worker functions. *
90 \***********************************************************************/
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));
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));
101 /***********************************************************************\
103 * Declare error codes. *
105 \***********************************************************************/
107 #define ERROR_EXPONENT_OVERFLOW (2)
109 /* end of flonum.h */