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   2 --                                                                          --
   3 --                         GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS                         --
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  33
  34 --  This generic package provides a target independent implementation of the
  35 --  floating-point attributes that denote functions. The implementations here
  36 --  are portable, but very slow. The runtime contains a set of instantiations
  37 --  of this package for all predefined floating-point types, and these should
  38 --  be replaced by efficient assembly language code where possible.
  39
  40 generic
  41     type T is digits <>;
  42
  43 package System.Fat_Gen is
  44    pragma Pure;
  45
  46    subtype UI is Integer;
  47    --  The runtime representation of universal integer for the purposes of
  48    --  this package is integer. The expander generates conversions for the
  49    --  actual type used. For functions returning universal integer, there
  50    --  is no problem, since the result always is in range of integer. For
  51    --  input arguments, the expander has to do some special casing to deal
  52    --  with the (very annoying!) cases of out of range values. If we used
  53    --  Long_Long_Integer to represent universal, then there would be no
  54    --  problem, but the resulting inefficiency would be annoying.
  55
  56    function Adjacent          (X, Towards : T)              return T;
  57
  58    function Ceiling           (X : T)                       return T;
  59
  60    function Compose           (Fraction : T; Exponent : UI) return T;
  61
  62    function Copy_Sign         (Value, Sign : T)             return T;
  63
  64    function Exponent          (X : T)                       return UI;
  65
  66    function Floor             (X : T)                       return T;
  67
  68    function Fraction          (X : T)                       return T;
  69
  70    function Leading_Part      (X : T; Radix_Digits : UI)    return T;
  71
  72    function Machine           (X : T)                       return T;
  73
  74    function Machine_Rounding  (X : T)                       return T;
  75
  76    function Model             (X : T)                       return T;
  77
  78    function Pred              (X : T)                       return T;
  79
  80    function Remainder         (X, Y : T)                    return T;
  81
  82    function Rounding          (X : T)                       return T;
  83
  84    function Scaling           (X : T; Adjustment : UI)      return T;
  85
  86    function Succ              (X : T)                       return T;
  87
  88    function Truncation        (X : T)                       return T;
  89
  90    function Unbiased_Rounding (X : T)                       return T;
  91
  92    function Valid (X : access T) return Boolean;
  93    --  This function checks if the object of type T referenced by X
  94    --  is valid, and returns True/False accordingly. The parameter is
  95    --  passed by reference (access) here, as the object of type T may
  96    --  be an abnormal value that cannot be passed in a floating-point
  97    --  register, and the whole point of 'Valid is to prevent exceptions.
  98    --  Note that the object of type T must have the natural alignment
  99    --  for type T. See Unaligned_Valid for further discussion.
 100    --
 101    --  Note: this routine does not work for Vax_Float ???
 102
 103    function Unaligned_Valid (A : System.Address) return Boolean;
 104    --  This version of Valid is used if the floating-point value to
 105    --  be checked is not known to be aligned (for example it appears
 106    --  in a packed record). In this case, we cannot call Valid since
 107    --  Valid assumes proper full alignment. Instead Unaligned_Valid
 108    --  performs the same processing for a possibly unaligned float,
 109    --  by first doing a copy and then calling Valid. One might think
 110    --  that the front end could simply do a copy to an aligned temp,
 111    --  but remember that we may have an abnormal value that cannot
 112    --  be copied into a floating-point register, so things are a bit
 113    --  trickier than one might expect.
 114    --
 115    --  Note: Unaligned_Valid is never called for a target which does
 116    --  not require strict alignment (e.g. the ia32/x86), since on a
 117    --  target not requiring strict alignment, it is fine to pass a
 118    --  non-aligned value to the standard Valid routine.
 119    --
 120    --  Note: this routine does not work for Vax_Float ???
 121
 122 private
 123    pragma Inline (Machine);
 124    pragma Inline (Model);
 125
 126    --  Note: previously the validity checking subprograms (Unaligned_Valid and
 127    --  Valid) were also inlined, but this was changed since there were some
 128    --  problems with this inlining in optimized mode, and in any case it seems
 129    --  better to avoid this inlining (space and robustness considerations).
 130
 131 end System.Fat_Gen;