Add APFloat::getExactInverse.

The idea is, that if an ieee 754 float is divided by a power of two, we can
turn the division into a cheaper multiplication. This function sees if we can
get an exact multiplicative inverse for a divisor and returns it if possible.

This is the hard part of PR9587.

I tested many inputs against llvm-gcc's frotend implementation of this
optimization and didn't find any difference. However, floating point is the
land of weird edge cases, so any review would be appreciated.

llvm-svn: 128545

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Support/APFloat.cpp b/llvm/lib/Support/APFloat.cpp
index 93806facff0..abe55753181 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Support/APFloat.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Support/APFloat.cpp
@@ -3562,3 +3562,29 @@ void APFloat::toString(SmallVectorImpl<char> &Str,
   for (; I != NDigits; ++I)
     Str.push_back(buffer[NDigits-I-1]);
 }
+
+bool APFloat::getExactInverse(APFloat *inv) const {
+  // We can only guarantee the existance of an exact inverse for IEEE floats.
+  if (semantics != &IEEEhalf && semantics != &IEEEsingle &&
+      semantics != &IEEEdouble && semantics != &IEEEquad)
+    return false;
+
+  // Special floats and denormals have no exact inverse.
+  if (category != fcNormal)
+    return false;
+
+  // Check that the number is a power of two by making sure that only the
+  // integer bit is set in the significand.
+  if (significandLSB() != semantics->precision - 1)
+    return false;
+
+  // Get the inverse.
+  APFloat reciprocal(*semantics, 1ULL);
+  if (reciprocal.divide(*this, rmNearestTiesToEven) != opOK)
+    return false;
+
+  if (inv)
+    *inv = reciprocal;
+
+  return true;
+}