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2011-10-15 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
vasnprintf: Fix comments.
* lib/vasnprintf.c (decode_long_double, decode_double): Fix comments.
--- lib/vasnprintf.c.orig Sat Oct 15 12:12:49 2011
+++ lib/vasnprintf.c Sat Oct 15 12:12:46 2011
@@ -885,9 +885,9 @@
y = frexpl (x, &exp);
if (!(y >= 0.0L && y < 1.0L))
abort ();
- /* x = 2^exp * y = 2^(exp - LDBL_MANT_BIT) * (y * LDBL_MANT_BIT), and the
+ /* x = 2^exp * y = 2^(exp - LDBL_MANT_BIT) * (y * 2^LDBL_MANT_BIT), and the
latter is an integer. */
- /* Convert the mantissa (y * LDBL_MANT_BIT) to a sequence of limbs.
+ /* Convert the mantissa (y * 2^LDBL_MANT_BIT) to a sequence of limbs.
I'm not sure whether it's safe to cast a 'long double' value between
2^31 and 2^32 to 'unsigned int', therefore play safe and cast only
'long double' values between 0 and 2^16 (to 'unsigned int' or 'int',
@@ -973,9 +973,9 @@
y = frexp (x, &exp);
if (!(y >= 0.0 && y < 1.0))
abort ();
- /* x = 2^exp * y = 2^(exp - DBL_MANT_BIT) * (y * DBL_MANT_BIT), and the
+ /* x = 2^exp * y = 2^(exp - DBL_MANT_BIT) * (y * 2^DBL_MANT_BIT), and the
latter is an integer. */
- /* Convert the mantissa (y * DBL_MANT_BIT) to a sequence of limbs.
+ /* Convert the mantissa (y * 2^DBL_MANT_BIT) to a sequence of limbs.
I'm not sure whether it's safe to cast a 'double' value between
2^31 and 2^32 to 'unsigned int', therefore play safe and cast only
'double' values between 0 and 2^16 (to 'unsigned int' or 'int',
--
In memoriam Thomas Sankara <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara>
