Mesa (master): gallivm: Add a note about log2 computation and denormalized numbers.
Jose Fonseca
jrfonseca at kemper.freedesktop.org
Sat Jul 23 01:52:32 UTC 2011
Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 5161aff48af2fe0171be06fc727a000ad300fbd9
URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=5161aff48af2fe0171be06fc727a000ad300fbd9
Author: José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>
Date: Wed Jul 20 14:53:59 2011 -0700
gallivm: Add a note about log2 computation and denormalized numbers.
---
src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_arit.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_arit.c b/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_arit.c
index 0c075ba..2be8598 100644
--- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_arit.c
+++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_arit.c
@@ -2465,6 +2465,12 @@ lp_build_log2_approx(struct lp_build_context *bld,
assert(type.floating && type.width == 32);
+ /*
+ * We don't explicitly handle denormalized numbers. They will yield a
+ * result in the neighbourhood of -127, which appears to be adequate
+ * enough.
+ */
+
i = LLVMBuildBitCast(builder, x, int_vec_type, "");
/* exp = (float) exponent(x) */
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