[Fwd: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat missing functions]

["J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>]

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-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
> To: Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>
> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat missing functions
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:10:14 +0100
> 
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:37 +0000, Julian Seward wrote:
> > > Note that float64_to_uint64 functions are not correct, as they won't
> > > return results between INT64_MAX and UINT64_MAX. Hope someone may know
> > > the proper solution for this.
> > 
> > How about this?
> 
> Yes, it seems to be the correct way, but thinking more about the
> problem, it appeared to me that the implementation could be even easier
> than yours. It seems to me that this may be sufficient:
> uint64_t float64_to_uint64 (float64 a STATUS_PARAM)
> {
>     int64_t v;
> 
>     v = llrint(a + (float64)INT64_MIN);
> 
>     return v - INT64_MIN;
> }
> uint64_t float64_to_uint64_round_to_zero (float64 a STATUS_PARAM)
> {
>     int64_t v;
> 
>     v = (int64_t)(a + (float64)INT64_MIN);
> 
>     return v - INT64_MIN;
> }
> 
> For "not-native" softfloat, this gives:
> uint64_t float64_to_uint64 (float64 a STATUS_PARAM)
> {
>     int64_t v;
> 
>     v = int64_to_float64(INT64_MIN STATUS_VAR);
>     v = float64_to_int64((a + v) STATUS_VAR);
> 
>     return v - INT64_MIN;
> }
> 
> uint64_t float64_to_uint64_round_to_zero (float64 a STATUS_PARAM)
> {
>     int64_t v;
> 
>     v = int64_to_float64(INT64_MIN STATUS_VAR);
>     v = float64_to_int64_round_to_zero((a + v) STATUS_VAR);
> 
>     return v - INT64_MIN;
> }
> 
> This should also give the correct result for NaN and overflows, if we
> rely to the fact float64_to_int64 is correct. Please tell me if I'm
> wrong !
> 
-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
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