Hi,
If I define a macro as follows
#define COSTHETA cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0)
I believe that any time COSTHETA appears it is simply replaced by the
defined text, which results in the cos(...) being calculated in my program
every time. Is there a way to get the preprocessor to calculate the cosine
and just replace COSTHETA with its final number? I know I could define a
const variable but I just want the final number.
Thanks for any help.
Jay 4 1963
"Jay Wolfe" <ja*****@adelph ia.net> wrote in message
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Hi.
If I define a macro as follows
#define COSTHETA cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0)
I believe that any time COSTHETA appears it is simply replaced by the defined text, which results in the cos(...) being calculated in my program every time. Is there a way to get the preprocessor to calculate the cosine and just replace COSTHETA with its final number? I know I could define a const variable but I just want the final number.
In C++, it would better to write something like:
static const double CosineEightTurn = cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0);
Using macros for constants is bad form in C++.
--
--Larry Brasfield
email: do************* **********@hotm ail.com
Above views may belong only to me.
Jay Wolfe wrote: Hi,
If I define a macro as follows
#define COSTHETA cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0)
I believe that any time COSTHETA appears it is simply replaced by the defined text, which results in the cos(...) being calculated in my program every time. Is there a way to get the preprocessor to calculate the cosine and just replace COSTHETA with its final number? I know I could define a const variable but I just want the final number.
The preprocessor knows nothing about cos and can't really do anything
with floating point. There's not even a guarantee that the expression that
is the arg to your cos call is going to be evaluated at compile time
(the language makes no constraints on being able to do floating point
math, just integral math).
The const variable is the way to go, hoping that the compiler is smart
enough to do something optimal with it. Of course if the above is literally
what your interested in, you don't need to call cos at all. The answer is .7071..
Jay Wolfe wrote:
If I define a macro as follows
#define COSTHETA cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0)
I believe that any time COSTHETA appears, it is simply replaced by the defined text which results in the cos(...) being calculated in my program every time.
Not necessarily.
Is there a way to get the preprocessor to calculate the cosine and just replace COSTHETA with its final number?
No. But a good optimizing compiler should be able to do it for you.
I know I could define a const variable but I just want the final number.
Notice that cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0) == sqrt(0.5).
If your compiler won't calculate cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0),
it may still calculate sqrt(0.5):
cat costheta.cc
#include <math.h>
double costheta(void) {
return sqrt(0.5);
}
g++ -Wall -ansi -pedantic -O3 -S costheta.cc cat costheta.s
.file "costheta.c c"
.section .rodata.cst8,"a M",@progbits ,8
.align 8
.LC0:
.long 1719614413
.long 1072079006
.text
.align 2
.p2align 4,,15
.globl _Z8costhetav
.type _Z8costhetav, @function
_Z8costhetav:
.LFB5:
pushl %ebp
.LCFI0:
movl %esp, %ebp
.LCFI1:
popl %ebp
fldl .LC0
ret
.LFE5:
.size _Z8costhetav, .-_Z8costhetav
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progb its
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 3.4.1"
"Jay Wolfe" <ja*****@adelph ia.net> wrote in message
news:WY******** ************@ad elphia.com... Hi,
If I define a macro as follows
#define COSTHETA cos(45.0*3.1415 9256/180.0)
I believe that any time COSTHETA appears it is simply replaced by the defined text, which results in the cos(...) being calculated in my program every time. Is there a way to get the preprocessor to calculate the cosine and just replace COSTHETA with its final number? I know I could define a const variable but I just want the final number.
Thanks for any help.
#include <math.h>
#define COSTHETA (M_SQRT2 / 2)
should also work (even though M_SQRT2 is not part of the Standard, it is
commonly defined). BTW, the value of pi you're using is inaccurate and will
give poor results. It also has the last two digits transposed. Use as many
digits as the precision allows, this one will work a bit better:
3.1415926535897 9323846, or even better, use M_PI if your math.h has it.
Best is to use a precalculated PI that is accurate to within one bit:
0x1.921fb54442d 1846ap+1L has 64 bits of mantissa.
If you want to use angles other than 45 degrees, an easy solution is to
write a simple C program that calculates the values, and then prints the
results out in a .c program which is then compiled into the application. I
use this all the time to generate complicated, but fixed, tables that are
way beyond what the preprocessor can do.
-Walter www.digitalmars.com free C, C++, D compilers
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