ack/mach/mantra/int/con_float.c
1988-04-28 15:16:07 +00:00

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/* unfortunately, we cannot just do an atof and convert result to float
is neccessary, because that might result in over/underflow at an
unexpected moment. For the time being, overflow in floating point
constants goes undetected
*/
con_float(argval, str, res)
char *str, *res;
{
double f;
double atof();
int i;
double frexp(), ldexp();
int j;
float fl;
char *p;
f = atof(str);
if (f == 0 || argval == 8) {
p = (char *) &f;
while (argval--) *res++ = *p++;
return;
}
f = frexp(f, &i);
fl = f;
fl = frexp(fl,&j);
if (i+j > 127) {
/* overflow situation. Unfortunately we don't have the
slightest idea where the floating point constant came
from, so, for the time being, just ignore
*/
*res++ = f < 0 ? 0377 : 0177;
*res++ = 0377;
*res++ = 0377;
*res = 0377;
return;
}
if (i+j < -127) {
/* underflow situation. Unfortunately we don't have the
slightest idea where the floating point constant came
from, so, for the time being, just ignore
*/
*res++ = f < 0 ? 0200 : 0;
*res++ = 0200;
*res++ = 0;
*res = 0;
return;
}
fl = ldexp(fl, i+j);
p = (char *) &fl;
while (argval--) *res++ = *p++;
}