/* (c) copyright 1988 by the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. See the copyright notice in the ACK home directory, in the file "Copyright". */ /* $Header$ */ /* SUBTRACT TWO FLOATS - DOUBLE Precision (SBF 8) */ #include "FP_types.h" extern _double adf8(); _double sbf8(s2,s1) _double s1,s2; { /* changing the sign directly */ /* is faster than the code line */ /* s2 = -s2; */ char unsigned *p; /* sufficient to access sign bit */ if (s2.__double[0] == 0 && s2.__double[1] == 0) { return s1; } p = (char unsigned *) &s2; *p ^= 0x80; /* change sign of s2 */ s1 = adf8(s2,s1); /* add and return result */ return(s1); }