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Diffstat (limited to 'include/floatformat.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/floatformat.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/floatformat.h b/include/floatformat.h index feb3260117c..1d08fd6183f 100644 --- a/include/floatformat.h +++ b/include/floatformat.h @@ -61,8 +61,12 @@ struct floatformat unsigned int exp_start; unsigned int exp_len; - /* Amount added to "true" exponent. 0x3fff for many IEEE extendeds. */ - unsigned int exp_bias; + /* Bias added to a "true" exponent to form the biased exponent. It + is intentionally signed as, otherwize, -exp_bias can turn into a + very large number (e.g., given the exp_bias of 0x3fff and a 64 + bit long, the equation (long)(1 - exp_bias) evaluates to + 4294950914) instead of -16382). */ + int exp_bias; /* Exponent value which indicates NaN. This is the actual value stored in the float, not adjusted by the exp_bias. This usually consists of all one bits. */ |