gcc/libjava/java/lang/VMFloat.java

/* VMFloat.java -- VM Specific Float methods
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package java.lang;

import gnu.classpath.Configuration;

/*
 * This class is a reference version, mainly for compiling a class library
 * jar.  It is likely that VM implementers replace this with their own
 * version that can communicate effectively with the VM.
 */

/**
 * Code relocated from java.lang.Float by 
 * @author Dave Grove <groved@us.ibm.com>
 */
final class VMFloat
{
  /**
   * Convert the float to the IEEE 754 floating-point "single format" bit
   * layout. Bit 31 (the most significant) is the sign bit, bits 30-23
   * (masked by 0x7f800000) represent the exponent, and bits 22-0
   * (masked by 0x007fffff) are the mantissa. This function collapses all
   * versions of NaN to 0x7fc00000. The result of this function can be used
   * as the argument to <code>Float.intBitsToFloat(int)</code> to obtain the
   * original <code>float</code> value.
   *
   * @param value the <code>float</code> to convert
   * @return the bits of the <code>float</code>
   * @see #intBitsToFloat(int)
   */
  static native int floatToIntBits(float value);

  /**
   * Convert the float to the IEEE 754 floating-point "single format" bit
   * layout. Bit 31 (the most significant) is the sign bit, bits 30-23
   * (masked by 0x7f800000) represent the exponent, and bits 22-0
   * (masked by 0x007fffff) are the mantissa. This function leaves NaN alone,
   * rather than collapsing to a canonical value. The result of this function
   * can be used as the argument to <code>Float.intBitsToFloat(int)</code> to
   * obtain the original <code>float</code> value.
   *
   * @param value the <code>float</code> to convert
   * @return the bits of the <code>float</code>
   * @see #intBitsToFloat(int)
   */
  static native int floatToRawIntBits(float value);

  /**
   * Convert the argument in IEEE 754 floating-point "single format" bit
   * layout to the corresponding float. Bit 31 (the most significant) is the
   * sign bit, bits 30-23 (masked by 0x7f800000) represent the exponent, and
   * bits 22-0 (masked by 0x007fffff) are the mantissa. This function leaves
   * NaN alone, so that you can recover the bit pattern with
   * <code>Float.floatToRawIntBits(float)</code>.
   *
   * @param bits the bits to convert
   * @return the <code>float</code> represented by the bits
   * @see #floatToIntBits(float)
   * @see #floatToRawIntBits(float)
   */
  static native float intBitsToFloat(int bits);

} // class VMFloat