#include "libm.h" /* k is such that k*ln2 has minimal relative error and x - kln2 > log(FLT_MIN) */ static const int k = 235; static const float kln2 = 0x1.45c778p+7f; /* expf(x)/2 for x >= log(FLT_MAX), slightly better than 0.5f*expf(x/2)*expf(x/2) */ float __expo2f(float x) { float scale; /* note that k is odd and scale*scale overflows */ SET_FLOAT_WORD(scale, (uint32_t)(0x7f + k/2) << 23); /* exp(x - k ln2) * 2**(k-1) */ return expf(x - kln2) * scale * scale; }