Christian Heimes added the comment:
I propose that we add three singletons to the float implementation:
PyFloat_NaN
PyFloat_Inf
PyFloat_NegInf
The singletons are returned from PyFloat_FromString() for "nan", "inf"
and "-inf". The other PyFloat_ method must return the singletons, too.
It's easy to check the signum, special and nan/inf status of an IEEE
double with a struct.
I've already started to work on a way to create nan, inf and -inf cross
platform conform. Right now float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf")
works on Linux but doesn't work on Windows. We could also add four
methods to math:
signum(float) -> 1/-1, finity(float) -> bool, infinite(float), nan(float)
Here is my work in progress:
#define Py_IEEE_DBL *(double*)&(ieee_double)
#if defined(LITTLE_ENDIAN_IEEE_DOUBLE) && !defined(BIG_ENDIAN_IEEE_DOUBLE)
typedef struct {
unsigned int m4 : 16;
unsigned int m3 : 16;
unsigned int m2 : 16;
unsigned int m1 : 4;
unsigned int exp : 11;
unsigned int sign : 1;
} ieee_double;
#define Py_IEEE_NAN Py_IEEE_DBL{0xffff, 0xffff, 0xffff, 0xf, 0x7ff, 0}
#define Py_IEEE_INF Py_IEEE_DBL{0, 0, 0, 0, 0x7ff, 0}
#define Py_IEEE_NEGINF Py_IEEE_DBL{0, 0, 0, 0, 0x7ff, 1}
#elif !defined(LITTLE_ENDIAN_IEEE_DOUBLE) && defined(BIG_ENDIAN_IEEE_DOUBLE)
typedef struct {
unsigned int sign : 1;
unsigned int exp : 11;
unsigned int m1 : 4;
unsigned int m2 : 16;
unsigned int m3 : 16;
unsigned int m4 : 16;
} ieee_double;
#define Py_IEEE_NAN Py_IEEE_DBL{0, 0x7ff, 0xf, 0xffff, 0xffff, 0xffff}
#define Py_IEEE_INF Py_IEEE_DBL{0, 0x7ff, 0, 0, 0, 0}
#define Py_IEEE_NEGINF Py_IEEE_DBL{1, 0x7ff, 0, 0, 0, 0}
#else
#error Unknown or no IEEE double implementation
#endif
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