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

[Jan Depner]

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 08:30, Tim Goetze wrote:
> [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?)
> 

	You'd probably need to AND and shift by 23 prior to starting this. 
This is much nicer than my first cut.  I was using brute force on the
ORs.  Also, I believe you're right about the FPU short-cutting a
multiply by zero.

Jan