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1 /* bignum.h-arbitrary precision integers
2    Copyright 1987, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 
4    This file is part of GAS, the GNU Assembler.
5 
6    GAS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9    any later version.
10 
11    GAS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14    GNU General Public License for more details.
15 
16    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17    along with GAS; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
18    the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
19 
20 /***********************************************************************\
21  *									*
22  *	Arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic.				*
23  *	For speed, we work in groups of bits, even though this		*
24  *	complicates algorithms.						*
25  *	Each group of bits is called a 'littlenum'.			*
26  *	A bunch of littlenums representing a (possibly large)		*
27  *	integer is called a 'bignum'.					*
28  *	Bignums are >= 0.						*
29  *									*
30  \***********************************************************************/
31 
32 #define	LITTLENUM_NUMBER_OF_BITS	(16)
33 #define	LITTLENUM_RADIX			(1 << LITTLENUM_NUMBER_OF_BITS)
34 #define	LITTLENUM_MASK			(0xFFFF)
35 #define LITTLENUM_SHIFT			(1)
36 #define CHARS_PER_LITTLENUM		(1 << LITTLENUM_SHIFT)
37 #ifndef BITS_PER_CHAR
38 #define BITS_PER_CHAR			(8)
39 #endif
40 
41 typedef unsigned short LITTLENUM_TYPE;
42 
43 /* JF truncated this to get around a problem with GCC */
44 #define	LOG_TO_BASE_2_OF_10 (3.3219280948873623478703194294893901758651)
45 /* WARNING: I haven't checked that the trailing digits are correct! */
46 
47 /* lengths are in sizeof(littlenum)s */
48 
49 int bignum_copy (LITTLENUM_TYPE * in, int in_length,
50 		 LITTLENUM_TYPE * out, int out_length);
51 
52 /* end of bignum.h */
53