Messages in this thread | | | From | Michal Nazarewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] lib: vsprintf: optimised put_dec_trunc() and put_dec_full() | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:42:43 +0200 |
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Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> writes:
> 2010/8/10 Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com>: >>> On Sunday 08 August 2010 21:29, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: >>>> >>>> + /* >>>> + * '(x * 0xcccd) >> 19' is an approximation of 'x / 10' that >>>> + * gives correct results for all x < 81920. However, because >>>> + * intermediate result can be at most 32-bit we limit x to be >>>> + * 16-bit. >>>> + * >>>> + * Because of those, we check if we are dealing with a "big" >>>> + * number and if so, we make it smaller remembering to add to >>>> + * the most significant digit. >>>> + */ >>>> + if (q >= 50000) { >>>> + a = '5'; >>>> + q -= 50000; >>> >>> ... >>>> >>>> + /* >>>> + * We need to check if q is < 65536 so we might as well check >> >> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:17:48 +0200, Denys Vlasenko >> <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> You meant "need to check if q is < 81920"? >> >> No. 81920 is a 17 bit number and when we multiply it by 0xcccd we lose >> the most significant bit. >> Therefore we cannot use the '(x * 0xcccd) >> >> 19' approximation for numbers which are higher then 65535. > > No. All x up to (exclusive) 81920 can be multiplied by 0xcccd > and result still fits into 32 bits. Proof: > > # printf "%x\n" $((81919 * 0xcccd)) > ffff7333
Turns out something else was a problem ((x * 13) >> 7 works for x < 69). I'll update comments in the next version.
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