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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 20:31:18 +0200
From:      Stefan Farfeleder <e0026813@stud3.tuwien.ac.at>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: signbit ISO C99 macro
Message-ID:  <20020513183118.GB228@stefan.fafoe>
In-Reply-To: <200205131813.LAA19960@windsor.research.att.com>
References:  <200205131813.LAA19960@windsor.research.att.com>

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On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:13:58AM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> It's easy if it's easy to treat doubles as uint64_t's.  Like, I think
> signbit() might be something like
> 
> #define	signbit(d)	(*((uint64_t *)&(d)) & UINT64_C(0x8000000000000000))
> 
> or maybe
> 
> #define	signbit(d)	(*((uint64_t *)&(d)) >> 63)
> 
> However, that assumes that d is an IEEE double (and there is a
> possibly-incorrect assumption about byte order).  I don't know how to
> implement a macro that will take any real-floating type.

signbit isn't limited to lvalues, is it?  You'll have to handle eg
signbit(3.0) too.

Stefan Farfeleder

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