1 /* VMFloat.java -- VM Specific Float methods
2 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation
3
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37
38 package java.lang;
39
40 import gnu.classpath.Configuration;
41
42 /*
43 * This class is a reference version, mainly for compiling a class library
44 * jar. It is likely that VM implementers replace this with their own
45 * version that can communicate effectively with the VM.
46 */
47
48 /**
49 * Code relocated from java.lang.Float by
50 * @author Dave Grove <groved@us.ibm.com>
51 */
52 final class VMFloat
53 {
54
55 /**
56 * Load native routines necessary for this class.
57 */
58 static
59 {
60 if (Configuration.INIT_LOAD_LIBRARY)
61 {
62 System.loadLibrary("javalang");
63 }
64 }
65
66 /**
67 * Convert the float to the IEEE 754 floating-point "single format" bit
68 * layout. Bit 31 (the most significant) is the sign bit, bits 30-23
69 * (masked by 0x7f800000) represent the exponent, and bits 22-0
70 * (masked by 0x007fffff) are the mantissa. This function collapses all
71 * versions of NaN to 0x7fc00000. The result of this function can be used
72 * as the argument to <code>Float.intBitsToFloat(int)</code> to obtain the
73 * original <code>float</code> value.
74 *
75 * @param value the <code>float</code> to convert
76 * @return the bits of the <code>float</code>
77 * @see #intBitsToFloat(int)
78 */
79 static native int floatToIntBits(float value);
80
81 /**
82 * Convert the float to the IEEE 754 floating-point "single format" bit
83 * layout. Bit 31 (the most significant) is the sign bit, bits 30-23
84 * (masked by 0x7f800000) represent the exponent, and bits 22-0
85 * (masked by 0x007fffff) are the mantissa. This function leaves NaN alone,
86 * rather than collapsing to a canonical value. The result of this function
87 * can be used as the argument to <code>Float.intBitsToFloat(int)</code> to
88 * obtain the original <code>float</code> value.
89 *
90 * @param value the <code>float</code> to convert
91 * @return the bits of the <code>float</code>
92 * @see #intBitsToFloat(int)
93 */
94 static native int floatToRawIntBits(float value);
95
96 /**
97 * Convert the argument in IEEE 754 floating-point "single format" bit
98 * layout to the corresponding float. Bit 31 (the most significant) is the
99 * sign bit, bits 30-23 (masked by 0x7f800000) represent the exponent, and
100 * bits 22-0 (masked by 0x007fffff) are the mantissa. This function leaves
101 * NaN alone, so that you can recover the bit pattern with
102 * <code>Float.floatToRawIntBits(float)</code>.
103 *
104 * @param bits the bits to convert
105 * @return the <code>float</code> represented by the bits
106 * @see #floatToIntBits(float)
107 * @see #floatToRawIntBits(float)
108 */
109 static native float intBitsToFloat(int bits);
110
111 } // class VMFloat