Converting between Microsoft Binary and IEEE formats

1400 Converting between Microsoft Binary and IEEE formats

Last update 06/11/96


  //
  // The following are implementations of Microsoft RTL functions
  // not include in the Borland RTL.
  //
  // Functions:
  //     _fmsbintoieee()
  //     _fieeetomsbin()
  //     _dmsbintoieee()
  //     _dieeetomsbin()
  //
  // These functions convert back and forth from Microsoft Binary
  // Format to IEEE floating point format.
  //
  // As with the Microsoft RTL functions,
  //
  // The argument srcX points to the value to be converted and the
  // result is stored at the location given at destX.
  //
  // These routines do not handle IEE NAN's and infinities.  IEEE
  // denormals are treated as 0's.
  //
  // Return:
  //
  // These functions return 0 if the conversion is successful and 1
  // if the conversion causes an overflow.
  //
  //
  //
  // Examples of the use of these functions can be found on-line as
  // MSBIN.ZIP.
  //
  //--------------------------------------------------------------------

  #include <string.h>        /* for strncpy  */

  int _fmsbintoieee(float *src4, float *dest4)
     {
     unsigned char *msbin = (unsigned char *)src4;
     unsigned char *ieee = (unsigned char *)dest4;
     unsigned char sign = 0x00;
     unsigned char ieee_exp = 0x00;
     int i;

     /* MS Binary Format                         */
     /* byte order =>    m3 | m2 | m1 | exponent */
     /* m1 is most significant byte => sbbb|bbbb */
     /* m3 is the least significant byte         */
     /*      m = mantissa byte                   */
     /*      s = sign bit                        */
     /*      b = bit                             */

     sign = msbin[2] & 0x80;      /* 1000|0000b  */

     /* IEEE Single Precision Float Format       */
     /*    m3        m2        m1     exponent   */
     /* mmmm|mmmm mmmm|mmmm emmm|mmmm seee|eeee  */
     /*          s = sign bit                    */
     /*          e = exponent bit                */
     /*          m = mantissa bit                */

     for (i=0; i<4; i++) ieee[i] = 0;

     /* any msbin w/ exponent of zero = zero */
     if (msbin[3] == 0) return 0;

     ieee[3] |= sign;

     /* MBF is bias 128 and IEEE is bias 127. ALSO, MBF places   */
     /* the decimal point before the assumed bit, while          */
     /* IEEE places the decimal point after the assumed bit.     */

     ieee_exp = msbin[3] - 2;    /* actually, msbin[3]-1-128+127 */

     /* the first 7 bits of the exponent in ieee[3] */
     ieee[3] |= ieee_exp >> 1;

     /* the one remaining bit in first bin of ieee[2] */
     ieee[2] |= ieee_exp << 7;

     /* 0111|1111b : mask out the msbin sign bit */
     ieee[2] |= msbin[2] & 0x7f;

     ieee[1] = msbin[1];
     ieee[0] = msbin[0];

     return 0;
     }


  int _fieeetomsbin(float *src4, float *dest4)
     {
     unsigned char *ieee = (unsigned char *)src4;
     unsigned char *msbin = (unsigned char *)dest4;
     unsigned char sign = 0x00;
     unsigned char msbin_exp = 0x00;
     int i;

     /* See _fmsbintoieee() for details of formats   */
     sign = ieee[3] & 0x80;
     msbin_exp |= ieee[3] << 1;
     msbin_exp |= ieee[2] >> 7;

     /* An ieee exponent of 0xfe overflows in MBF    */
     if (msbin_exp == 0xfe) return 1;

     msbin_exp += 2;     /* actually, -127 + 128 + 1 */

     for (i=0; i<4; i++) msbin[i] = 0;

     msbin[3] = msbin_exp;

     msbin[2] |= sign;
     msbin[2] |= ieee[2] & 0x7f;
     msbin[1] = ieee[1];
     msbin[0] = ieee[0];

     return 0;
     }


  int _dmsbintoieee(double *src8, double *dest8)
     {
     unsigned char msbin[8];
     unsigned char *ieee = (unsigned char *)dest8;
     unsigned char sign = 0x00;
     unsigned int ieee_exp = 0x0000;
     int i;

     /* A manipulatable copy of the msbin number     */
     strncpy((char *)msbin,(char *)src8,8);

   /* MS Binary Format                                           */
   /* byte order =>  m7 | m6 | m5 | m4 | m3 | m2 | m1 | exponent */
   /* m1 is most significant byte => smmm|mmmm                   */
   /* m7 is the least significant byte                           */
   /*      m = mantissa byte                                     */
   /*      s = sign bit                                          */
   /*      b = bit                                               */

     sign = msbin[6] & 0x80;      /* 1000|0000b  */


   /* IEEE Single Precision Float Format                         */
   /*  byte 8    byte 7    byte 6    byte 5    byte 4  and so on */
   /* seee|eeee eeee|mmmm mmmm|mmmm mmmm|mmmm mmmm|mmmm ...      */
   /*          s = sign bit                                      */
   /*          e = exponent bit                                  */
   /*          m = mantissa bit                                  */

     for (i=0; i<8; i++) ieee[i] = 0;

     /* any msbin w/ exponent of zero = zero */
     if (msbin[7] == 0) return 0;


     ieee[7] |= sign;

     /* MBF is bias 128 and IEEE is bias 1023. ALSO, MBF places  */
     /* the decimal point before the assumed bit, while          */
     /* IEEE places the decimal point after the assumed bit.     */

     ieee_exp = msbin[7] - 128 - 1 + 1023;

     /* First 4 bits of the msbin exponent   */
     /* go into the last 4 bits of ieee[7]   */
     ieee[7] |= ieee_exp >> 4;

     /* The last 4 bits of msbin exponent    */
     /* go into the first 4 bits of ieee[6]  */
     ieee[6] |= ieee_exp << 4;

     /* The msbin mantissa must be shifted to the right 1 bit.   */
     /* Remember that the msbin number has its bytes reversed.   */
     for (i=6; i>0; i--)
         {
         msbin[i] <<= 1;
         msbin[i] |= msbin[i-1] >> 7;
         }
     msbin[0] <<= 1;

     /* Now the mantissa is put into the ieee array starting in  */
     /* the middle of the second to last byte.                   */

     for (i=6; i>0; i--)
         {
         ieee[i] |= msbin[i] >> 4;
         ieee[i-1] |= msbin[i] << 4;
         }
     ieee[0] |= msbin[0] >> 4;

   /* IEEE has a half byte less for its mantissa.  If the msbin */
   /* number has anything in this last half byte, then there is */
   /* an overflow.                                              */
     if (msbin[0] & 0x0f)
         return 1;
     else
         return 0;
     }

  int _dieeetomsbin(double *src8, double *dest8)
     {
     unsigned char ieee[8];
     unsigned char *msbin = (unsigned char *)dest8;
     unsigned char sign = 0x00;
     unsigned char any_on = 0x00;
     unsigned int msbin_exp = 0x0000;
     int i;

     /* Make a clobberable copy of the source number */
     strncpy((char *)ieee,(char *)src8,8);

     for (i=0; i<8; i++) msbin[i] = 0;

     /* If all are zero in src8, the msbin should be zero */
     for (i=0; i<8; i++) any_on |= ieee[i];
     if (!any_on) return 0;

     sign = ieee[7] & 0x80;
     msbin[6] |= sign;
     msbin_exp = (unsigned)(ieee[7] & 0x7f) * 0x10;
     msbin_exp += ieee[6] >> 4;

     if (msbin_exp-0x3ff > 0x80) return 1;

     msbin[7] = msbin_exp - 0x3ff + 0x80 + 1;

     /* The ieee mantissa must be shifted up 3 bits */
     ieee[6] &= 0x0f; /* mask out the exponent in the second byte
     */
     for (i=6; i>0; i--)
         {
         msbin[i] |= ieee[i] << 3;
         msbin[i] |= ieee[i-1] >> 5;
         }

     msbin[0] |= ieee[0] << 3;

     return 0;
     }


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