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Re: How to get mantissa of long double?

From Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: How to get mantissa of long double?
Date 2021-10-07 05:35 +0000
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red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> wrote:
>> union
>> {
>>      long double value;
>>      struct
>>      {
>>          uint64_t mantissa;
>>          uint16_t exponent : 15,
>>                   sign : 1;
>>      };
>> }
>> 
>> Just store your value into value and extract the mantissa from mantissa.
> 
> Does anyone know if type punning through a union is still undefined
> behavior?
> 
> Also, I believe bitfield allocation is implementation defined.

Also, the above union assumes that the long double value is stored in the
same byte order as the members of the struct. It also assumes that the long
double occupies exactly 10 bytes and isn't padded in the wrong end.

And, as you say, it's not defined whether that sign bit will be the lowest
or highest bit of that 16-bit bitfield. (I don't think the standard even
guarantees that the 1-bit will be stored in the same bytes as the 15-bits.)

You could make some compile-time checks to see that the union will have
the proper internal structure (and refuse to compile otherwise), although
IIRC there's no way to check endianess at compile time (unless C++20
added some new features to do that).

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How to get mantissa of long double? wij <wyniijj@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 08:37 -0700
  Re: How to get mantissa of long double? RadicalRabbit@theburrow.co.uk - 2021-10-01 16:09 +0000
    Re: How to get mantissa of long double? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-10-01 14:05 -0400
      Re: How to get mantissa of long double? wij <wyniijj@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 17:23 -0700
        Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-10-02 18:58 +0200
          Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-10-02 19:21 +0200
  Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 19:18 +0200
    Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 19:20 +0200
      Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 19:25 +0200
        Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 19:53 +0200
          Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-03 08:09 +0200
            Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-10-03 11:15 +0100
              Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-03 12:19 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? red floyd <no.spam@its.invalid> - 2021-10-03 18:03 -0700
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-04 09:52 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2021-10-04 09:59 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-04 13:50 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-04 20:04 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 07:12 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-05 09:47 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 16:46 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-05 19:04 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 19:13 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 09:04 -0700
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 19:14 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-10-05 19:21 +0100
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 07:58 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-06 08:11 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 10:25 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-10-06 14:25 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 16:53 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-10-06 12:12 +0100
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 14:48 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2021-10-06 09:44 -0700
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 18:52 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 19:02 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2021-10-07 05:35 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-07 08:20 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-07 08:38 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-07 08:42 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-07 10:23 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-08 20:23 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-09 10:23 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-09 10:50 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@icloud.com> - 2021-10-09 09:02 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-10-09 14:57 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-10-09 12:16 +0100
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-09 15:10 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2021-10-09 10:26 -0700
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-12 21:23 +0100
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? RadicalRabbit@theburrow.co.uk - 2021-10-13 10:30 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-07 08:38 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2021-10-08 04:37 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-08 07:54 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2021-10-07 22:44 -0700
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-07 08:17 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2021-10-08 04:39 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-10-08 09:25 +0200
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-10-08 14:34 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 13:57 -0700
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                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-10-04 14:06 +0100
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                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-10-04 14:37 +0000
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                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-10-04 17:08 +0000
                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-10-04 20:22 +0100
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      Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 20:16 +0200
  Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@icloud.com> - 2021-10-01 18:53 +0000
    Re: How to get mantissa of long double? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-10-01 20:19 -0400
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                Re: How to get mantissa of long double? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-10-03 23:42 -0400
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        Re: How to get mantissa of long double? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2021-10-02 21:27 +0200
          Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-10-02 23:19 +0200
        Re: How to get mantissa of long double? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-10-03 23:43 -0400
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        Re: How to get mantissa of long double? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-10-03 23:31 -0400
          Re: How to get mantissa of long double? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@icloud.com> - 2021-10-04 04:34 +0000
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