+ /* Bias added to a "true" exponent to form the biased exponent. It
+ is intentionally signed as, otherwize, -exp_bias can turn into a
+ very large number (e.g., given the exp_bias of 0x3fff and a 64
+ bit long, the equation (long)(1 - exp_bias) evaluates to
+ 4294950914) instead of -16382). */
+ int exp_bias;