[linux-audio-dev] swh plugins and fixing undenormalize

[Tim Goetze]

[Simon Jenkins]
>Tim Goetze wrote:
>>8-bit exponent and no assumption about its value made, 8 binary
>>'shift', 7 'or' and 1 'and' statement if i'm not badly mistaken. and
>>if i'm not, a branch will probably hurt less.
>>
>Three shifts, three copys, three 'or's and an 'and':
>
>    copy = value;
>    value |= copy >> 4;
>    copy = value;
>    value |= copy >> 2;
>    copy = value;
>    value |= copy >> 1;
>    value &= 0x01;

elegant indeed (though the exponent is not in the lowest 8 bits so it
needs another shift, no?)

tim