sortable-serialise.cc

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/* Copyright (C) 2007,2009,2015,2016,2024,2025 Olly Betts
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#include <config.h>
 
#include <xapian/queryparser.h>
 
// Disable these assertions when building the library as these functions are
// marked not to throw exceptions in the API headers.  In unittest we define
// UNITTEST_ASSERT_NOTHROW to set a variable to the exception message and
// return, then the harness checks if that variable has been set.
#ifndef XAPIAN_UNITTEST
# define UNITTEST_ASSERT_NOTHROW(COND,RET)
#endif
 
#include "negate_unsigned.h"
 
#include <cfloat>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstring>
 
#include <string>
#include <string_view>
 
using namespace std;
 
#if FLT_RADIX != 2
# error Code currently assumes FLT_RADIX == 2
#endif
 
size_t
Xapian::sortable_serialise_(double value, char* buf) noexcept
{
    /* Special case for infinities and NaN.  We check this first since frexp()
     * on infinity or NaN returns an unspecified value for the exponent.
     */
    if (rare(!isfinite(value))) {
handle_as_infinity:
        if (value < 0) {
            // Negative infinity.
            return 0;
        } else {
            // Positive infinity.
            memset(buf, '\xff', 9);
            return 9;
        }
    }
 
    int exponent;
    double mantissa = frexp(value, &exponent);
 
    /* Deal with zero specially.
     *
     * IEEE representation of doubles uses 11 bits for the exponent, with a
     * bias of 1023.  We bias this by subtracting 8, and non-IEEE
     * representations may allow higher exponents, so allow exponents down to
     * -2039 - if smaller exponents are possible anywhere, we underflow such
     *  numbers to 0.
     */
    if (mantissa == 0.0 || rare(exponent < -2039)) {
        *buf = '\x80';
        return 1;
    }
 
    if (rare(exponent > 2055)) {
        // Extremely large non-IEEE representation.
        goto handle_as_infinity;
    }
 
    bool negative = (mantissa < 0);
    if (negative) mantissa = -mantissa;
 
    // Encoding:
    //
    // [ 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 3 2 1 0]
    //   Sm  Se  Le
    //
    // Sm stores the sign of the mantissa: 1 = positive or zero, 0 = negative.
    // Se stores the sign of the exponent: Sm for positive/zero, !Sm for neg.
    // Le stores the length of the exponent: !Se for 3 bits, Se for 11 bits.
    unsigned char next = (negative ? 0 : 0xe0);
 
    // Bias the exponent by 8 so that more small integers get short encodings.
    exponent -= 8;
    bool exponent_negative = (exponent < 0);
    if (exponent_negative) {
        exponent = -exponent;
        next ^= 0x60;
    }
 
    size_t len = 0;
 
    /* We store the exponent in 3 or 11 bits.  If the number is negative, we
     * flip all the bits of the exponent, since larger negative numbers should
     * sort first.
     *
     * If the exponent is negative, we flip the bits of the exponent, since
     * larger negative exponents should sort first (unless the number is
     * negative, in which case they should sort later).
     */
    UNITTEST_ASSERT_NOTHROW(exponent >= 0, 0);
    if (exponent < 8) {
        next ^= 0x20;
        next |= static_cast<unsigned char>(exponent << 2);
        if (negative ^ exponent_negative) next ^= 0x1c;
    } else {
        UNITTEST_ASSERT_NOTHROW((exponent >> 11) == 0, 0);
        // Put the top 5 bits of the exponent into the lower 5 bits of the
        // first byte:
        next |= static_cast<unsigned char>(exponent >> 6);
        if (negative ^ exponent_negative) next ^= 0x1f;
        buf[len++] = next;
        // And the lower 6 bits of the exponent go into the upper 6 bits
        // of the second byte:
        next = static_cast<unsigned char>(exponent << 2);
        if (negative ^ exponent_negative) next ^= 0xfc;
    }
 
    // Convert the 52 (or 53) bits of the mantissa into two 32-bit words.
    mantissa *= 1 << (negative ? 26 : 27);
    unsigned word1 = static_cast<unsigned>(mantissa);
    mantissa -= word1;
    unsigned word2 = static_cast<unsigned>(mantissa * 4294967296.0); // 1<<32
    // If the number is positive, the first bit will always be set because 0.5
    // <= mantissa < 1, unless mantissa is zero, which we handle specially
    // above).  If the number is negative, we negate the mantissa instead of
    // flipping all the bits, so in the case of 0.5, the first bit isn't set
    // so we need to store it explicitly.  But for the cost of one extra
    // leading bit, we can save several trailing 0xff bytes in lots of common
    // cases.
    UNITTEST_ASSERT_NOTHROW(negative || (word1 & (1<<26)), 0);
    if (negative) {
        // We negate the mantissa for negative numbers, so that the sort order
        // is reversed (since larger negative numbers should come first).
        word1 = negate_unsigned(word1);
        if (word2 != 0) ++word1;
        word2 = negate_unsigned(word2);
    }
 
    word1 &= 0x03ffffff;
    next |= static_cast<unsigned char>(word1 >> 24);
    buf[len++] = next;
    buf[len++] = char(word1 >> 16);
    buf[len++] = char(word1 >> 8);
    buf[len++] = char(word1);
 
    buf[len++] = char(word2 >> 24);
    buf[len++] = char(word2 >> 16);
    buf[len++] = char(word2 >> 8);
    buf[len++] = char(word2);
 
    // Finally, we can chop off any trailing zero bytes.
    while (len > 0 && buf[len - 1] == '\0') {
        --len;
    }
 
    return len;
}
 
static inline unsigned char
numfromstr(std::string_view str, std::string::size_type pos)
{
    return (pos < str.size()) ? static_cast<unsigned char>(str[pos]) : '\0';
}
 
double
Xapian::sortable_unserialise(std::string_view value) noexcept
{
    // Zero.
    if (value.size() == 1 && value[0] == '\x80') return 0.0;
 
    // Positive infinity.
    if (value.size() == 9 &&
        memcmp(value.data(), "\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff", 9) == 0) {
        // "On implementations that support floating-point infinities,
        // [HUGE_VAL] always expand[s] to the positive infinit[y] of double"
        // https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/HUGE_VAL
        return HUGE_VAL;
    }
 
    // Negative infinity.
    if (value.empty()) {
        return -HUGE_VAL;
    }
 
    unsigned char first = numfromstr(value, 0);
    size_t i = 0;
 
    first ^= static_cast<unsigned char>(first & 0xc0) >> 1;
    bool negative = !(first & 0x80);
    bool exponent_negative = (first & 0x40);
    bool explen = !(first & 0x20);
    int exponent = first & 0x1f;
    if (!explen) {
        exponent >>= 2;
        if (negative ^ exponent_negative) exponent ^= 0x07;
    } else {
        first = numfromstr(value, ++i);
        exponent <<= 6;
        exponent |= (first >> 2);
        if (negative ^ exponent_negative) exponent ^= 0x07ff;
    }
 
    unsigned word1;
    word1 = (unsigned(first & 0x03) << 24);
    word1 |= numfromstr(value, ++i) << 16;
    word1 |= numfromstr(value, ++i) << 8;
    word1 |= numfromstr(value, ++i);
 
    unsigned word2 = 0;
    if (i < value.size()) {
        word2 = numfromstr(value, ++i) << 24;
        word2 |= numfromstr(value, ++i) << 16;
        word2 |= numfromstr(value, ++i) << 8;
        word2 |= numfromstr(value, ++i);
    }
 
    if (negative) {
        word1 = negate_unsigned(word1);
        if (word2 != 0) ++word1;
        word2 = negate_unsigned(word2);
        UNITTEST_ASSERT_NOTHROW((word1 & 0xf0000000) != 0, 0);
        word1 &= 0x03ffffff;
    }
    if (!negative) word1 |= 1<<26;
 
    double mantissa = 0;
    if (word2) mantissa = word2 / 4294967296.0; // 1<<32
    mantissa += word1;
    mantissa /= 1 << (negative ? 26 : 27);
 
    if (exponent_negative) exponent = -exponent;
    exponent += 8;
 
    if (negative) mantissa = -mantissa;
 
    // We use scalbn() since it's equivalent to ldexp() when FLT_RADIX == 2
    // (which we currently assume), except that ldexp() will set errno if the
    // result overflows or underflows.  We don't need or want errno set (indeed
    // configure turns on -fno-math-errno if it detects the compiler supports
    // it).
    return scalbn(mantissa, exponent);
}