1 /* signbit() macro: Determine the sign bit of a floating-point number.
2 Copyright (C) 2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
23 #include "isnanf-nolibm.h"
27 gl_signbitf (float arg)
29 #if defined FLT_SIGNBIT_WORD && defined FLT_SIGNBIT_BIT
30 /* The use of a union to extract the bits of the representation of a
31 'long double' is safe in practice, despite of the "aliasing rules" of
32 C99, because the GCC docs say
33 "Even with '-fstrict-aliasing', type-punning is allowed, provided the
34 memory is accessed through the union type."
35 and similarly for other compilers. */
37 ((sizeof (float) + sizeof (unsigned int) - 1) / sizeof (unsigned int))
38 union { float value; unsigned int word[NWORDS]; } m;
40 return (m.word[FLT_SIGNBIT_WORD] >> FLT_SIGNBIT_BIT) & 1;
41 #elif HAVE_COPYSIGNF_IN_LIBC
42 return copysignf (1.0f, arg) < 0;
44 /* This does not do the right thing for NaN, but this is irrelevant for
52 /* Distinguish 0.0f and -0.0f. */
53 static float plus_zero = 0.0f;
55 return (memcmp (&plus_zero, &arg_mem, SIZEOF_FLT) != 0);