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author | Chris Robinson <[email protected]> | 2018-04-28 18:52:40 -0700 |
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committer | Chris Robinson <[email protected]> | 2018-04-28 18:52:40 -0700 |
commit | e420752e82f8c1aad421d3928bda53841e975a0e (patch) | |
tree | 86d4cdf67f4a4ee39485118676a08f03d26be1b7 | |
parent | 54109043b82ca20fb0069d215930fb218f2e7c4f (diff) |
Fix a comment about a float's mantissa
-rw-r--r-- | Alc/ALu.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1679,9 +1679,10 @@ static inline ALfloat Conv_ALfloat(ALfloat val) { return val; } static inline ALint Conv_ALint(ALfloat val) { - /* Floats only have a 24-bit mantissa, so [-16777216, +16777216] is the max - * integer range normalized floats can be safely converted to (a bit of the - * exponent helps out, effectively giving 25 bits). + /* Floats have a 23-bit mantissa. A bit of the exponent helps out along + * with the sign bit, giving 25 bits. So [-16777216, +16777216] is the max + * integer range normalized floats can be converted to before losing + * precision. */ return fastf2i(clampf(val*16777216.0f, -16777216.0f, 16777215.0f))<<7; } |