[PATCH] D136568: [Clang] Support constexpr builtin ilogb

[Evgeny Shulgin via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

Izaron added inline comments.


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Comment at: clang/lib/AST/ExprConstant.cpp:12452
+    int Ilogb;
+    if (APFloat::opStatus St = ilogb(F, Ilogb); !isConstantOpStatus(St))
+      return false;
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aaron.ballman wrote:
> jcranmer-intel wrote:
> > `long double` is `ppc_fp128` on at least some PPC targets, and while I'm not entirely certain of what `ilogb` properly returns in the corner cases of the `ppc_fp128`, I'm not entirely confident that the implementation of `APFloat` is correct in those cases. I'd like someone with PPC background to comment in here.
> Paging @hubert.reinterpretcast for help finding a good person to comment on the PPC questions.
@jcranmer-intel constexpr evaluation is quite machine-/target-independent. Clang evaluates it based on its **internal** representation of float variables.

[[ https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/2e5bf4da99a2f8d3d4bb4f1a4d1ed968a01e8f02/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/APFloat.h#L1256 | int ilogb ]] uses `Arg.getIEEE()`, that [[ https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/2e5bf4da99a2f8d3d4bb4f1a4d1ed968a01e8f02/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/APFloat.h#L819-L825 | returns Clang's internal float representation ]].

Whichever float semantics is being used, [[ https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/2e5bf4da99a2f8d3d4bb4f1a4d1ed968a01e8f02/llvm/lib/Support/APFloat.cpp#L54-L61 | minExponent and maxExponent are representable as APFloatBase::ExponentType ]], which is `int32_t`:
```
/// A signed type to represent a floating point numbers unbiased exponent.
typedef int32_t ExponentType;
```

We already use `int ilogb` in some constexpr evaluation code: [[ https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/2e5bf4da99a2f8d3d4bb4f1a4d1ed968a01e8f02/clang/lib/AST/ExprConstant.cpp#L14592 | link ]], it is working correct because it is working on Clang's float representations.


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