lisp/float-sup.el

   1 ;;; float-sup.el --- detect absence of floating-point support in Emacs runtime
   2
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   4
   5 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   6 ;; Keywords: internal
   7
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  24
  25 ;;; Commentary:
  26
  27 ;;; Code:
  28
  29 ;; Provide a meaningful error message if we are running on
  30 ;; bare (non-float) emacs.
  31
  32 (if (fboundp 'atan)
  33     nil
  34   (error "Floating point was disabled at compile time"))
  35
  36 ;; provide an easy hook to tell if we are running with floats or not.
  37 ;; define pi and e via math-lib calls. (much less prone to killer typos.)
  38 (defconst pi (* 4 (atan 1)) "The value of Pi (3.1415926...).")
  39 ;; It's too inconvenient to make `e' a constant because it's used as
  40 ;; a temporary variable all the time.
  41 (defvar e (exp 1) "The value of e (2.7182818...).")
  42
  43 ;; Careful when editing this file ... typos here will be hard to spot.
  44 ;; (defconst pi       3.14159265358979323846264338327
  45 ;;  "The value of Pi (3.14159265358979323846264338327...)")
  46
  47 (defconst degrees-to-radians (/ pi 180.0)
  48   "Degrees to radian conversion constant.")
  49 (defconst radians-to-degrees (/ 180.0 pi)
  50   "Radian to degree conversion constant.")
  51
  52 ;; these expand to a single multiply by a float when byte compiled
  53
  54 (defmacro degrees-to-radians (x)
  55   "Convert ARG from degrees to radians."
  56   (list '* (/ pi 180.0) x))
  57 (defmacro radians-to-degrees (x)
  58   "Convert ARG from radians to degrees."
  59   (list '* (/ 180.0 pi) x))
  60
  61 (provide 'lisp-float-type)
  62
  63 ;;; float-sup.el ends here