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00001 #ifndef CPPUNIT_PORTABILITY_FLOATINGPOINT_H_INCLUDED
00002 #define CPPUNIT_PORTABILITY_FLOATINGPOINT_H_INCLUDED
00003 
00004 #include <cppunit/Portability.h>
00005 #include <math.h>
00006 
00007 CPPUNIT_NS_BEGIN
00008 
00010 // According to IEEE-754 floating point standard, 
00011 // (see e.g. page 8 of
00012 // http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/ieee754.ps) 
00013 // all comparisons with NaN are false except "x != x", which is true.
00014 //
00015 // At least Microsoft Visual Studio 6 is known not to implement this test correctly.
00016 // It emits the following code to test equality:
00017 //  fcomp       qword ptr [nan]
00018 //  fnstsw      ax                        // copie fp (floating-point) status register to ax
00019 //  test        ah,40h                    // test bit 14 of ax (0x4000) => C3 of fp status register
00020 // According to the following documentation on the x86 floating point status register,
00021 // the C2 bit should be tested to test for NaN value. 
00022 // http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/Windows/HTML/RealArithmetic.html#1000117
00023 // In Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 & 2005, the test is implemented with:
00024 //  test        ah,44h         // Visual Studio 2005 test both C2 & C3...
00025 //
00026 // To work around this, a NaN is assumed to be detected if no strict ordering is found.
00027 inline bool floatingPointIsUnordered( double x )
00028 {
00029    // x != x will detect a NaN on conformant platform
00030    // (2.0 < x  &&  x < 1.0) will detect a NaN on non conformant platform:
00031    // => no ordering can be found for x.
00032    return  (x != x) ||  (2.0 < x  &&  x < 1.0);
00033 }
00034 
00035 
00038 inline int floatingPointIsFinite( double x )
00039 {
00040 #if defined(CPPUNIT_HAVE_ISFINITE)
00041    return isfinite( x );
00042 #elif defined(CPPUNIT_HAVE_FINITE)
00043    return finite( x );
00044 #elif defined(CPPUNIT_HAVE__FINITE)
00045    return _finite(x);
00046 #else
00047    double testInf = x * 0.0;  // Produce 0.0 if x is finite, a NaN otherwise.
00048    return testInf == 0.0  &&  !floatingPointIsUnordered(testInf);
00049 #endif
00050 }
00051 
00052 CPPUNIT_NS_END
00053 
00054 #endif // CPPUNIT_PORTABILITY_FLOATINGPOINT_H_INCLUDED

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