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

[Simon Jenkins]

Tim Goetze wrote:

>[Simon Jenkins]
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>>Tim Goetze wrote:
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>>>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':
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>>   copy = value;
>>   value |= copy >> 4;
>>   copy = value;
>>   value |= copy >> 2;
>>   copy = value;
>>   value |= copy >> 1;
>>   value &= 0x01;
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>elegant indeed (though the exponent is not in the lowest 8 bits so it
>needs another shift, no?)
>
Yes it does. And another copy of value because the one you start out with
gets destroyed. And the result, when its 1, is the integer 1 not the 
float 1.0
so you either need to (...etc etc).