[LAD] Floating point Denormals: C++ and Waf

[Charles Henry]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Charles Henry <czhenry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Martin Homuth-Rosemann
> <linuxaudio at cryptomys.de> wrote:
>> {
>>   // define an aliasing type to perform a "reinterpret cast"
>>   typedef __u32 __attribute__ (( __may_alias__ )) u32bit;
>>   if ( *( (u32bit*)&f ) & 0x7F000000 ) // E > 1 : normal.
>
> Is there a 64-bit version of the same?  This appears to work with a
> 32-bit unsigned int as a pointer, meaning that it's applicable to
> 32-bits.  How does a "reinterpret cast" work?

Wait... I'll answer that one myself.  It's applicable to 64-bits.  The
u32bit* is whatever size the address space is.  So, it doesn't matter.

The reinterpret cast is making this 32-bit float into a 32-bit integer
directly without numerical conversion.