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Robert Griesemer authored
This is a fairly significant _internal_ representation change. Instead of encoding 0, finite, infinite, and NaN values with special mantissa and exponent values, a new (1 byte) 'form' field is used (without making the Float struct bigger). The form field permits simpler and faster case distinctions. As a side benefit, for zero and non-finite floats, fewer fields need to be set. Also, the exponent range is not the full int32 range (in the old format, infExp and nanExp were used to represent Inf and NaN values and tests for those values sometimes didn't test for the empty mantissa, so the range was reduced by 2 values). The correspondence between the old and new fields is as follows. Old representation: x neg mant exp --------------------------------------------------------------- +/-0 sign empty 0 0 < |x| < +Inf sign mantissa exponent +/-Inf sign empty infExp NaN false empty nanExp New representation (- stands for ignored fields): x neg mant exp form --------------------------------------------------------------- +/-0 sign - - zero 0 < |x| < +Inf sign mantissa exponent finite +/-Inf sign - - inf NaN - - - nan Client should not be affected by this change. Change-Id: I7e355894d602ceb23f9ec01da755fe6e0386b101 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6870Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>
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