contrib/gdb-6.2.1/gdb/doublest.h

   1 /* Floating point definitions for GDB.
   2
   3    Copyright 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
   4    1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation,
   5    Inc.
   6
   7    This file is part of GDB.
   8
   9    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  10    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  11    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  12    (at your option) any later version.
  13
  14    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  15    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  16    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  17    GNU General Public License for more details.
  18
  19    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  20    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  21    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  22    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
  23
  24 #ifndef DOUBLEST_H
  25 #define DOUBLEST_H
  26
  27 struct type;
  28
  29 /* Setup definitions for host and target floating point formats.  We need to
  30    consider the format for `float', `double', and `long double' for both target
  31    and host.  We need to do this so that we know what kind of conversions need
  32    to be done when converting target numbers to and from the hosts DOUBLEST
  33    data type.  */
  34
  35 /* This is used to indicate that we don't know the format of the floating point
  36    number.  Typically, this is useful for native ports, where the actual format
  37    is irrelevant, since no conversions will be taking place.  */
  38
  39 #include "floatformat.h"        /* For struct floatformat */
  40
  41 /* Use `long double' if the host compiler supports it.  (Note that this is not
  42    necessarily any longer than `double'.  On SunOS/gcc, it's the same as
  43    double.)  This is necessary because GDB internally converts all floating
  44    point values to the widest type supported by the host.
  45
  46    There are problems however, when the target `long double' is longer than the
  47    host's `long double'.  In general, we'll probably reduce the precision of
  48    any such values and print a warning.  */
  49
  50 #ifdef HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE
  51 typedef long double DOUBLEST;
  52 #else
  53 typedef double DOUBLEST;
  54 #endif
  55
  56 extern void floatformat_to_doublest (const struct floatformat *,
  57                                      const void *in, DOUBLEST *out);
  58 extern void floatformat_from_doublest (const struct floatformat *,
  59                                        const DOUBLEST *in, void *out);
  60
  61 extern int floatformat_is_negative (const struct floatformat *, char *);
  62 extern int floatformat_is_nan (const struct floatformat *, char *);
  63 extern char *floatformat_mantissa (const struct floatformat *, char *);
  64
  65 /* These functions have been replaced by extract_typed_floating and
  66    store_typed_floating.
  67
  68    Most calls are passing in TYPE_LENGTH (TYPE) so can be changed to
  69    just pass the TYPE.  The remainder pass in the length of a
  70    register, those calls should instead pass in the floating point
  71    type that corresponds to that length.  */
  72
  73 extern DOUBLEST deprecated_extract_floating (const void *addr, int len);
  74 extern void deprecated_store_floating (void *addr, int len, DOUBLEST val);
  75
  76 /* Given TYPE, return its floatformat.  TYPE_FLOATFORMAT() may return
  77    NULL.  type_floatformat() detects that and returns a floatformat
  78    based on the type size when FLOATFORMAT is NULL.  */
  79
  80 const struct floatformat *floatformat_from_type (const struct type *type);
  81
  82 extern DOUBLEST extract_typed_floating (const void *addr,
  83                                         const struct type *type);
  84 extern void store_typed_floating (void *addr, const struct type *type,
  85                                   DOUBLEST val);
  86 extern void convert_typed_floating (const void *from,
  87                                     const struct type *from_type,
  88                                     void *to, const struct type *to_type);
  89
  90 #endif