Question for Parisse about CAS floating point

[jgoizueta]

(04-06-2015 06:43 AM)parisse Wrote:  The type field was 8 bits large in the past, but it is now 5 bits large

Code:


    unsigned char type:5;  // 32 types is enough, keep 3 bits more for double

That leaves 48 bits (47+1 implicit) for mantissa (47+5+1 sign+11 exponent=64 bits, sizeof(gen)=8) if DOUBLEVAL is not defined.

Oh, I see... the code I was looking at (giac-0.9.5) didn't have the ":5" bitfield.

Thanks!!