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[binutils.git] / include / floatformat.h
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1 /* IEEE floating point support declarations, for GDB, the GNU Debugger.
2 Copyright 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
3 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
21 #if !defined (FLOATFORMAT_H)
22 #define FLOATFORMAT_H 1
24 #include "ansidecl.h"
26 /* A floatformat consists of a sign bit, an exponent and a mantissa. Once the
27 bytes are concatenated according to the byteorder flag, then each of those
28 fields is contiguous. We number the bits with 0 being the most significant
29 (i.e. BITS_BIG_ENDIAN type numbering), and specify which bits each field
30 contains with the *_start and *_len fields. */
32 /* What is the order of the bytes? */
34 enum floatformat_byteorders {
35 /* Standard little endian byte order.
36 EX: 1.2345678e10 => 00 00 80 c5 e0 fe 06 42 */
37 floatformat_little,
39 /* Standard big endian byte order.
40 EX: 1.2345678e10 => 42 06 fe e0 c5 80 00 00 */
41 floatformat_big,
43 /* Little endian byte order but big endian word order.
44 EX: 1.2345678e10 => e0 fe 06 42 00 00 80 c5 */
45 floatformat_littlebyte_bigword,
47 /* VAX byte order. Little endian byte order with 16-bit words. The
48 following example is an illustration of the byte order only; VAX
49 doesn't have a fully IEEE compliant floating-point format.
50 EX: 1.2345678e10 => 80 c5 00 00 06 42 e0 fe */
51 floatformat_vax
54 enum floatformat_intbit { floatformat_intbit_yes, floatformat_intbit_no };
56 struct floatformat
58 enum floatformat_byteorders byteorder;
59 unsigned int totalsize; /* Total size of number in bits */
61 /* Sign bit is always one bit long. 1 means negative, 0 means positive. */
62 unsigned int sign_start;
64 unsigned int exp_start;
65 unsigned int exp_len;
66 /* Bias added to a "true" exponent to form the biased exponent. It
67 is intentionally signed as, otherwize, -exp_bias can turn into a
68 very large number (e.g., given the exp_bias of 0x3fff and a 64
69 bit long, the equation (long)(1 - exp_bias) evaluates to
70 4294950914) instead of -16382). */
71 int exp_bias;
72 /* Exponent value which indicates NaN. This is the actual value stored in
73 the float, not adjusted by the exp_bias. This usually consists of all
74 one bits. */
75 unsigned int exp_nan;
77 unsigned int man_start;
78 unsigned int man_len;
80 /* Is the integer bit explicit or implicit? */
81 enum floatformat_intbit intbit;
83 /* Internal name for debugging. */
84 const char *name;
86 /* Validator method. */
87 int (*is_valid) (const struct floatformat *fmt, const void *from);
90 /* floatformats for IEEE single and double, big and little endian. */
92 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ieee_single_big;
93 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ieee_single_little;
94 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ieee_double_big;
95 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ieee_double_little;
97 /* floatformat for ARM IEEE double, little endian bytes and big endian words */
99 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ieee_double_littlebyte_bigword;
101 /* floatformats for VAX. */
103 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_vax_f;
104 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_vax_d;
105 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_vax_g;
107 /* floatformats for various extendeds. */
109 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_i387_ext;
110 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_m68881_ext;
111 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_i960_ext;
112 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_m88110_ext;
113 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_m88110_harris_ext;
114 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_arm_ext_big;
115 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_arm_ext_littlebyte_bigword;
116 /* IA-64 Floating Point register spilt into memory. */
117 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ia64_spill_big;
118 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ia64_spill_little;
119 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ia64_quad_big;
120 extern const struct floatformat floatformat_ia64_quad_little;
122 /* Convert from FMT to a double.
123 FROM is the address of the extended float.
124 Store the double in *TO. */
126 extern void
127 floatformat_to_double (const struct floatformat *, const void *, double *);
129 /* The converse: convert the double *FROM to FMT
130 and store where TO points. */
132 extern void
133 floatformat_from_double (const struct floatformat *, const double *, void *);
135 /* Return non-zero iff the data at FROM is a valid number in format FMT. */
137 extern int
138 floatformat_is_valid (const struct floatformat *fmt, const void *from);
140 #endif /* defined (FLOATFORMAT_H) */