1 /* Manipulating the FPU control word.
2 Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2007.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
21 /* The i386 floating point hardware (the 387 compatible FPU, not the modern
22 SSE/SSE2 hardware) has a controllable rounding precision. It is specified
23 through the 'PC' bits in the FPU control word ('fctrl' register). (See
24 the GNU libc i386 <fpu_control.h> header for details.)
26 On some platforms, such as Linux or Solaris, the default precision setting
27 is set to "extended precision". This means that 'long double' instructions
28 operate correctly, but 'double' computations often produce slightly
29 different results as on strictly IEEE 754 conforming systems.
31 On some platforms, such as NetBSD, the default precision is set to
32 "double precision". This means that 'long double' instructions will operate
33 only as 'double', i.e. lead to wrong results. Similarly on FreeBSD 6.4, at
34 least for the division of 'long double' numbers.
36 The FPU control word is under control of the application, i.e. it is
37 not required to be set either way by the ABI. (In fact, the i386 ABI
38 http://refspecs.freestandards.org/elf/abi386-4.pdf page 3-12 = page 38
39 is not clear about it. But in any case, gcc treats the control word
40 like a "preserved" register: it emits code that assumes that the control
41 word is preserved across calls, and it restores the control word at the
42 end of functions that modify it.)
44 See Vincent Lefèvre's page http://www.vinc17.org/research/extended.en.html
45 for a good explanation.
46 See http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.0/0453.html for
47 some argumentation which setting should be the default. */
49 /* This header file provides the following facilities:
50 fpucw_t integral type holding the value of 'fctrl'
51 FPU_PC_MASK bit mask denoting the precision control
52 FPU_PC_DOUBLE precision control for 53 bits mantissa
53 FPU_PC_EXTENDED precision control for 64 bits mantissa
54 GET_FPUCW () yields the current FPU control word
55 SET_FPUCW (word) sets the FPU control word
56 DECL_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING variable declaration for
57 BEGIN/END_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING
58 BEGIN_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING () starts a sequence of instructions with
59 'long double' safe operation precision
60 END_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING () ends a sequence of instructions with
61 'long double' safe operation precision
64 /* Inline assembler like this works only with GNU C. */
65 #if (defined __i386__ || defined __x86_64__) && defined __GNUC__
67 typedef unsigned short fpucw_t
; /* glibc calls this fpu_control_t */
69 # define FPU_PC_MASK 0x0300
70 # define FPU_PC_DOUBLE 0x200 /* glibc calls this _FPU_DOUBLE */
71 # define FPU_PC_EXTENDED 0x300 /* glibc calls this _FPU_EXTENDED */
73 # define GET_FPUCW() \
75 __asm__ __volatile__ ("fnstcw %0" : "=m" (*&_cw)); \
78 # define SET_FPUCW(word) \
79 (void)({ fpucw_t _ncw = (word); \
80 __asm__ __volatile__ ("fldcw %0" : : "m" (*&_ncw)); \
83 # define DECL_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING \
85 # define BEGIN_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING() \
86 (void)(oldcw = GET_FPUCW (), \
87 SET_FPUCW ((oldcw & ~FPU_PC_MASK) | FPU_PC_EXTENDED))
88 # define END_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING() \
93 typedef unsigned int fpucw_t
;
95 # define FPU_PC_MASK 0
96 # define FPU_PC_DOUBLE 0
97 # define FPU_PC_EXTENDED 0
99 # define GET_FPUCW() 0
100 # define SET_FPUCW(word) (void)(word)
102 # define DECL_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING
103 # define BEGIN_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING()
104 # define END_LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING()
108 #endif /* _FPUCW_H */
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