float-equal warnings

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo All!

Mark asked me to dig deeper.

On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:06:53 -0700
"Gary E. Miller" <gem at rellim.com> wrote:

> > Comparing against LOGTOD(-31) will fail for any value less than
> > ~0.2ns (the minimum l_fp fraction).  
> 
> Yup.  Except the results is a constant, and having to compute a log
> every time on a constant is a bit watesful.


So I made a test:

    #include <math.h>
    #define LOGTOD(a)	ldexp(1., (int)(a)) /* log2 to double */
    int main( int argc, char ** argv)
    {
	return (int)LOGTOD(1e-9);
    }

gcc -g test.c -o test
gdb test
disasssemble main:

    Dump of assembler code for function main:
       0x00000000004004b6 <+0>:	push   %rbp
       0x00000000004004b7 <+1>:	mov    %rsp,%rbp
       0x00000000004004ba <+4>:	mov    %edi,-0x4(%rbp)
       0x00000000004004bd <+7>:	mov    %rsi,-0x10(%rbp)
       0x00000000004004c1 <+11>:	mov    $0x1,%eax
       0x00000000004004c6 <+16>:	pop    %rbp
       0x00000000004004c7 <+17>:	retq   
    End of assembler dump.

So  I'm shocked, gcc made LOGTOD(1e-9) a simple binary constant.

RGDS
GARY
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