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use centralized file for copyright info for individual contributors * COPYRIGHT.md: New file. * In most other files, use "Copyright (C) YYYY-YYYY The Octave Project Developers" instead of tracking individual names in separate source files. The motivation is to reduce the effort required to update the notices each year. Until now, the Octave source files contained copyright notices that list individual contributors. I adopted these file-scope copyright notices because that is what everyone was doing 30 years ago in the days before distributed version control systems. But now, with many contributors and modern version control systems, having these file-scope copyright notices causes trouble when we update copyright years or refactor code. Over time, the file-scope copyright notices may become outdated as new contributions are made or code is moved from one file to another. Sometimes people contribute significant patches but do not add a line claiming copyright. Other times, people add a copyright notice for their contribution but then a later refactoring moves part or all of their contribution to another file and the notice is not moved with the code. As a practical matter, moving such notices is difficult -- determining what parts are due to a particular contributor requires a time-consuming search through the project history. Even managing the yearly update of copyright years is problematic. We have some contributors who are no longer living. Should we update the copyright dates for their contributions when we release new versions? Probably not, but we do still want to claim copyright for the project as a whole. To minimize the difficulty of maintaining the copyright notices, I would like to change Octave's sources to use what is described here: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html in the section "Maintaining centralized copyright notices": The centralized notice approach consolidates all copyright notices in a single location, usually a top-level file. This file should contain all of the copyright notices provided project contributors, unless the contribution was clearly insignificant. It may also credit -- without a copyright notice -- anyone who helped with the project but did not contribute code or other copyrighted material. This approach captures less information about contributions within individual files, recognizing that the DVCS is better equipped to record those details. As we mentioned before, it does have one disadvantage as compared to the file-scope approach: if a single file is separated from the distribution, the recipient won't see the contributors' copyright notices. But this can be easily remedied by including a single copyright notice in each file's header, pointing to the top-level file: Copyright YYYY-YYYY The Octave Project Developers See the COPYRIGHT file at the top-level directory of this distribution or at https://octave.org/COPYRIGHT.html. followed by the usual GPL copyright statement. For more background, see the discussion here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2020-01/msg00009.html Most files in the following directories have been skipped intentinally in this changeset: doc libgui/qterminal liboctave/external m4
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:38:17 -0500
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/*

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See the file COPYRIGHT.md in the top-level directory of this distribution
or <https://octave.org/COPYRIGHT.html/>.


This file is part of Octave.

Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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*/

#if defined (HAVE_CONFIG_H)
#  include "config.h"
#endif

#include <cctype>
#include <cstdlib>

#include <istream>
#include <limits>
#include <ostream>
#include <vector>

#include "byte-swap.h"
#include "data-conv.h"
#include "lo-error.h"
#include "lo-ieee.h"
#include "oct-locbuf.h"

// FIXME: Almost all platform-dependent sizes such as "short" are now defined
// to take fixed values (such as 2B).  This was instigated for Matlab
// compatibility (bug #41672).  It means a lot of this code is probably
// obsolete and could be pared down or removed entirely.

#if defined (OCTAVE_HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT)
#  define FIND_SIZED_INT_TYPE(VAL, BITS, TQ, Q)                         \
  do                                                                    \
    {                                                                   \
      int sz = BITS / std::numeric_limits<unsigned char>::digits;       \
      if (sizeof (TQ char) == sz)                                       \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## char;                          \
      else if (sizeof (TQ short) == sz)                                 \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## short;                         \
      else if (sizeof (TQ int) == sz)                                   \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## int;                           \
      else if (sizeof (TQ long) == sz)                                  \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## long;                          \
      else if (sizeof (TQ long long) == sz)                             \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## longlong;                      \
      else                                                              \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_unknown;                                \
    }                                                                   \
  while (0)
#else
#  define FIND_SIZED_INT_TYPE(VAL, BITS, TQ, Q)                         \
  do                                                                    \
    {                                                                   \
      int sz = BITS / std::numeric_limits<unsigned char>::digits;       \
      if (sizeof (TQ char) == sz)                                       \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## char;                          \
      else if (sizeof (TQ short) == sz)                                 \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## short;                         \
      else if (sizeof (TQ int) == sz)                                   \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## int;                           \
      else if (sizeof (TQ long) == sz)                                  \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_ ## Q ## long;                          \
      else                                                              \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_unknown;                                \
    }                                                                   \
  while (0)
#endif

#define FIND_SIZED_FLOAT_TYPE(VAL, BITS)                                \
  do                                                                    \
    {                                                                   \
      int sz = BITS / std::numeric_limits<unsigned char>::digits;       \
      if (sizeof (float) == sz)                                         \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_float;                                  \
      else if (sizeof (double) == sz)                                   \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_double;                                 \
      else                                                              \
        VAL = oct_data_conv::dt_unknown;                                \
    }                                                                   \
  while (0)

// I'm not sure it is worth the trouble, but let's use a lookup table
// for the types that are supposed to be a specific number of bits
// wide.  Given the macros above, this should work as long as
// std::numeric_limits<unsigned char>::digits is a multiple of 8 and
// there are types with the right sizes.
//
// The sized data type lookup table has the following format:
//
//                            bits
//                    +----+----+----+----+
//                    |  8 | 16 | 32 | 64 |
//                    +----+----+----+----+
//     signed integer |    |    |    |    |
//                    +----+----+----+----+
//   unsigned integer |    |    |    |    |
//                    +----+----+----+----+
//     floating point |    |    |    |    |
//                    +----+----+----+----+
//
// So, the 0,3 element is supposed to contain the oct_data_conv enum
// value corresponding to the correct native data type for a signed
// 32-bit integer.

static void
init_sized_type_lookup_table (oct_data_conv::data_type table[3][4])
{
  int bits = 8;

  for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    {
      FIND_SIZED_INT_TYPE (table[0][i], bits, , );

      FIND_SIZED_INT_TYPE (table[1][i], bits, unsigned, u);

      FIND_SIZED_FLOAT_TYPE (table[2][i], bits);

      bits *= 2;
    }
}

static std::string
strip_spaces (const std::string& str)
{
  size_t n = str.length ();

  size_t k = 0;

  std::string s (n, '\0');

  for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++)
    if (! isspace (str[i]))
      s[k++] = tolower (str[i]);

  s.resize (k);

  return s;
}

#define GET_SIZED_INT_TYPE(T, U)                \
  do                                            \
    {                                           \
      switch (sizeof (T))                       \
        {                                       \
        case 1:                                 \
          retval = dt_ ## U ## int8;            \
          break;                                \
                                                \
        case 2:                                 \
          retval = dt_ ## U ## int16;           \
          break;                                \
                                                \
        case 4:                                 \
          retval = dt_ ## U ## int32;           \
          break;                                \
                                                \
        case 8:                                 \
          retval = dt_ ## U ## int64;           \
          break;                                \
                                                \
        default:                                \
          retval = dt_unknown;                  \
          break;                                \
        }                                       \
    }                                           \
  while (0)

size_t
oct_data_conv::data_type_size (data_type dt)
{
  size_t retval = -1;

  switch (dt)
    {
    case oct_data_conv::dt_int8:
      retval = sizeof (int8_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint8:
      retval = sizeof (uint8_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int16:
      retval = sizeof (int16_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint16:
      retval = sizeof (uint16_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int32:
      retval = sizeof (int32_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint32:
      retval = sizeof (uint32_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int64:
      retval = sizeof (int64_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint64:
      retval = sizeof (uint64_t);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_float:
    case oct_data_conv::dt_single:
      retval = sizeof (float);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_double:
      retval = sizeof (double);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_char:
      retval = sizeof (char);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_schar:
      retval = sizeof (signed char);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uchar:
      retval = sizeof (unsigned char);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_short:
      retval = sizeof (short);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_ushort:
      retval = sizeof (unsigned short);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int:
      retval = sizeof (int);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint:
      retval = sizeof (unsigned int);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_long:
      retval = sizeof (long);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_ulong:
      retval = sizeof (unsigned long);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_longlong:
      retval = sizeof (long long);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_ulonglong:
      retval = sizeof (unsigned long long);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_logical:
      retval = sizeof (bool);
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_unknown:
    default:
      (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
        ("oct_data_conv::data_type_size: unknown data type");
      break;
    }

  return retval;
}

oct_data_conv::data_type
oct_data_conv::string_to_data_type (const std::string& str)
{
  data_type retval = dt_unknown;

  static bool initialized = false;

  static data_type sized_type_table[3][4];

  if (! initialized)
    {
      init_sized_type_lookup_table (sized_type_table);

      initialized = true;
    }

  std::string s = strip_spaces (str);

  // Organized so most frequent precision appears first
  if (s == "uint8")
    retval = dt_uint8;
  else if (s == "double" || s == "float64" || s == "real*8")
    retval = dt_double;
  else if (s == "single" || s == "float" || s == "float32" || s == "real*4")
    retval = dt_single;
  else if (s == "char" || s == "char*1")
    retval = dt_char;
  else if (s == "int")
    retval = dt_int32;
  else if (s == "uchar" || s == "unsignedchar")
    retval = dt_uint8;
  else if (s == "schar" || s == "signedchar")
    retval = dt_int8;
  else if (s == "int8" || s == "integer*1")
    retval = dt_int8;
  else if (s == "int16" || s == "integer*2")
    retval = dt_int16;
  else if (s == "uint16")
    retval = dt_uint16;
  else if (s == "int32" || s == "integer*4")
    retval = dt_int32;
  else if (s == "uint32")
    retval = dt_uint32;
  else if (s == "int64" || s == "integer*8")
    retval = dt_int64;
  else if (s == "uint64")
    retval = dt_uint64;
  else if (s == "short")
    retval = dt_int16;
  else if (s == "ushort" || s == "unsignedshort")
    retval = dt_uint16;
  else if (s == "uint" || s == "unsignedint")
    retval = dt_uint32;
  else if (s == "long")
    retval = dt_int32;
  else if (s == "ulong" || s == "unsignedlong")
    retval = dt_uint32;
  // FIXME: The following are undocumented precisions
  else if (s == "longlong")
    GET_SIZED_INT_TYPE (long long, );
  else if (s == "ulonglong" || s == "unsignedlonglong")
    GET_SIZED_INT_TYPE (unsigned long long, u);
  else if (s == "logical")
    retval = dt_logical;
  else
    (*current_liboctave_error_handler) ("invalid data type specified");

  if (retval == dt_unknown)
    (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
      ("unable to find matching native data type for %s", s.c_str ());

  return retval;
}

void
oct_data_conv::string_to_data_type (const std::string& str, int& block_size,
                                    oct_data_conv::data_type& input_type,
                                    oct_data_conv::data_type& output_type)
{
  block_size = 1;
  input_type = dt_uchar;
  output_type = dt_double;

  bool input_is_output = false;

  std::string s = strip_spaces (str);

  size_t pos = 0;

  if (s[0] == '*')
    input_is_output = true;
  else
    {
      size_t len = s.length ();

      while (pos < len && isdigit (s[pos]))
        pos++;

      if (pos > 0)
        {
          if (s[pos] == '*')
            {
              block_size = atoi (s.c_str ());
              s = s.substr (pos+1);
            }
          else
            (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
              ("invalid repeat count in '%s'", str.c_str ());
        }
    }

  pos = s.find ('=');

  if (pos != std::string::npos)
    {
      if (s[pos+1] == '>')
        {
          std::string s1;

          if (input_is_output)
            {
              s1 = s.substr (1, pos-1);

              (*current_liboctave_warning_with_id_handler)
                ("Octave:fread-precision-syntax",
                 "warning: ignoring leading * in fread precision");
            }
          else
            s1 = s.substr (0, pos);

          input_type = string_to_data_type (s1);
          output_type = string_to_data_type (s.substr (pos+2));
        }
      else
        (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
          ("fread: invalid precision specified");
    }
  else
    {
      if (input_is_output)
        s = s.substr (1);

      input_type = string_to_data_type (s);

      if (input_is_output)
        output_type = input_type;
    }
}

void
oct_data_conv::string_to_data_type (const std::string& str, int& block_size,
                                    oct_data_conv::data_type& output_type)
{
  block_size = 1;
  output_type = dt_double;

  std::string s = strip_spaces (str);

  size_t pos = 0;

  size_t len = s.length ();

  while (pos < len && isdigit (s[pos]))
    pos++;

  if (pos > 0)
    {
      if (s[pos] == '*')
        {
          block_size = atoi (s.c_str ());
          s = s.substr (pos+1);
        }
      else
        (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
          ("invalid repeat count in '%s'", str.c_str ());
    }

  output_type = string_to_data_type (s);
}

std::string
oct_data_conv::data_type_as_string (oct_data_conv::data_type dt)
{
  std::string retval;

  switch (dt)
    {
    case oct_data_conv::dt_int8:
      retval = "int8";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint8:
      retval = "uint8";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int16:
      retval = "int16";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint16:
      retval = "uint16";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int32:
      retval = "int32";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint32:
      retval = "uint32";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int64:
      retval = "int64";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint64:
      retval = "uint64";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_single:
      retval = "single";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_double:
      retval = "double";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_char:
      retval = "char";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_schar:
      retval = "signed char";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uchar:
      retval = "unsigned char";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_short:
      retval = "short";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_ushort:
      retval = "unsigned short";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_int:
      retval = "int";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_uint:
      retval = "unsigned int";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_long:
      retval = "long";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_ulong:
      retval = "unsigned long";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_longlong:
      retval = "long long";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_ulonglong:
      retval = "unsigned long long";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_float:
      retval = "float";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_logical:
      retval = "logical";
      break;

    case oct_data_conv::dt_unknown:
    default:
      retval = "unknown";
      break;
    }

  return retval;
}

#define LS_DO_READ(TYPE, swap, data, size, len, stream)                 \
  do                                                                    \
    {                                                                   \
      if (len > 0)                                                      \
        {                                                               \
          OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER (TYPE, ptr, len);                         \
          std::streamsize n_bytes = size * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len); \
          stream.read (reinterpret_cast<char *> (ptr), n_bytes);        \
          if (swap)                                                     \
            swap_bytes< size > (ptr, len);                              \
          for (octave_idx_type i = 0; i < len; i++)                     \
            data[i] = ptr[i];                                           \
        }                                                               \
    }                                                                   \
  while (0)

// Have to use copy here to avoid writing over data accessed via
// Matrix::data ().

#define LS_DO_WRITE(TYPE, data, size, len, stream)                      \
  do                                                                    \
    {                                                                   \
     if (len > 0)                                                       \
       {                                                                \
        char tmp_type = type;                                           \
        stream.write (&tmp_type, 1);                                    \
        OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER (TYPE, ptr, len);                           \
        for (octave_idx_type i = 0; i < len; i++)                       \
          ptr[i] = static_cast<TYPE> (data[i]);                         \
        std::streamsize n_bytes = size * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len); \
        stream.write (reinterpret_cast<char *> (ptr), n_bytes);         \
        }                                                               \
     }                                                                  \
  while (0)

// Loading variables from files.

OCTAVE_NORETURN static
void
err_unrecognized_float_fmt (void)
{
  (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
    ("unrecognized floating point format requested");
}

// But first, some data conversion routines.

// Currently, we only handle conversions for the IEEE types.  To fix
// that, make more of the following routines work.

// FIXME: assumes sizeof (Complex) == 8
// FIXME: assumes sizeof (double) == 8
// FIXME: assumes sizeof (float) == 4

static void
IEEE_big_double_to_IEEE_little_double (void *d, octave_idx_type len)
{
  swap_bytes<8> (d, len);
}

static void
IEEE_big_float_to_IEEE_little_float (void *d, octave_idx_type len)
{
  swap_bytes<4> (d, len);
}

static void
IEEE_little_double_to_IEEE_big_double (void *d, octave_idx_type len)
{
  swap_bytes<8> (d, len);
}

static void
IEEE_little_float_to_IEEE_big_float (void *d, octave_idx_type len)
{
  swap_bytes<4> (d, len);
}

void
do_double_format_conversion (void *data, octave_idx_type len,
                             octave::mach_info::float_format from_fmt,
                             octave::mach_info::float_format to_fmt)
{
  switch (to_fmt)
    {
    case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_little_endian:
      switch (from_fmt)
        {
        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_little_endian:
          break;

        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_big_endian:
          IEEE_big_double_to_IEEE_little_double (data, len);
          break;

        default:
          err_unrecognized_float_fmt ();
          break;
        }
      break;

    case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_big_endian:
      switch (from_fmt)
        {
        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_little_endian:
          IEEE_little_double_to_IEEE_big_double (data, len);
          break;

        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_big_endian:
          break;

        default:
          err_unrecognized_float_fmt ();
          break;
        }
      break;

    default:
      (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
        ("impossible state reached in file '%s' at line %d",
         __FILE__, __LINE__);
      break;
    }
}

void
do_float_format_conversion (void *data, octave_idx_type len,
                            octave::mach_info::float_format from_fmt,
                            octave::mach_info::float_format to_fmt)
{
  switch (to_fmt)
    {
    case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_little_endian:
      switch (from_fmt)
        {
        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_little_endian:
          break;

        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_big_endian:
          IEEE_big_float_to_IEEE_little_float (data, len);
          break;

        default:
          err_unrecognized_float_fmt ();
          break;
        }
      break;

    case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_big_endian:
      switch (from_fmt)
        {
        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_little_endian:
          IEEE_little_float_to_IEEE_big_float (data, len);
          break;

        case octave::mach_info::flt_fmt_ieee_big_endian:
          break;

        default:
          err_unrecognized_float_fmt ();
          break;
        }
      break;

    default:
      (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
        ("impossible state reached in file '%s' at line %d",
         __FILE__, __LINE__);
      break;
    }
}

void
do_float_format_conversion (void *data, size_t sz, octave_idx_type len,
                            octave::mach_info::float_format from_fmt,
                            octave::mach_info::float_format to_fmt)
{
  switch (sz)
    {
    case sizeof (float):
      do_float_format_conversion (data, len, from_fmt, to_fmt);
      break;

    case sizeof (double):
      do_double_format_conversion (data, len, from_fmt, to_fmt);
      break;

    default:
      (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
        ("impossible state reached in file '%s' at line %d",
         __FILE__, __LINE__);
      break;
    }
}

void
read_doubles (std::istream& is, double *data, save_type type,
              octave_idx_type len, bool swap,
              octave::mach_info::float_format fmt)
{
  switch (type)
    {
    case LS_U_CHAR:
      LS_DO_READ (uint8_t, swap, data, 1, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_U_SHORT:
      LS_DO_READ (uint16_t, swap, data, 2, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_U_INT:
      LS_DO_READ (uint32_t, swap, data, 4, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_CHAR:
      LS_DO_READ (int8_t, swap, data, 1, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_SHORT:
      LS_DO_READ (int16_t, swap, data, 2, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_INT:
      LS_DO_READ (int32_t, swap, data, 4, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_FLOAT:
      {
        OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER (float, ptr, len);
        std::streamsize n_bytes = 4 * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len);
        is.read (reinterpret_cast<char *> (ptr), n_bytes);
        do_float_format_conversion (ptr, len, fmt);
        for (octave_idx_type i = 0; i < len; i++)
          data[i] = ptr[i];
      }
      break;

    case LS_DOUBLE: // No conversion necessary.
      {
        std::streamsize n_bytes = 8 * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len);
        is.read (reinterpret_cast<char *> (data), n_bytes);
        do_double_format_conversion (data, len, fmt);

        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
          data[i] = __lo_ieee_replace_old_NA (data[i]);
      }
      break;

    default:
      is.clear (std::ios::failbit | is.rdstate ());
      break;
    }
}

void
read_floats (std::istream& is, float *data, save_type type,
             octave_idx_type len, bool swap,
             octave::mach_info::float_format fmt)
{
  switch (type)
    {
    case LS_U_CHAR:
      LS_DO_READ (uint8_t, swap, data, 1, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_U_SHORT:
      LS_DO_READ (uint16_t, swap, data, 2, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_U_INT:
      LS_DO_READ (uint32_t, swap, data, 4, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_CHAR:
      LS_DO_READ (int8_t, swap, data, 1, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_SHORT:
      LS_DO_READ (int16_t, swap, data, 2, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_INT:
      LS_DO_READ (int32_t, swap, data, 4, len, is);
      break;

    case LS_FLOAT: // No conversion necessary.
      {
        std::streamsize n_bytes = 4 * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len);
        is.read (reinterpret_cast<char *> (data), n_bytes);
        do_float_format_conversion (data, len, fmt);
      }
      break;

    case LS_DOUBLE:
      {
        OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER (double, ptr, len);
        std::streamsize n_bytes = 8 * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len);
        is.read (reinterpret_cast<char *> (ptr), n_bytes);
        do_double_format_conversion (ptr, len, fmt);
        for (octave_idx_type i = 0; i < len; i++)
          data[i] = ptr[i];
      }
      break;

    default:
      is.clear (std::ios::failbit | is.rdstate ());
      break;
    }
}

void
write_doubles (std::ostream& os, const double *data, save_type type,
               octave_idx_type len)
{
  switch (type)
    {
    case LS_U_CHAR:
      LS_DO_WRITE (uint8_t, data, 1, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_U_SHORT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (uint16_t, data, 2, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_U_INT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (uint32_t, data, 4, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_CHAR:
      LS_DO_WRITE (int8_t, data, 1, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_SHORT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (int16_t, data, 2, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_INT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (int32_t, data, 4, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_FLOAT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (float, data, 4, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_DOUBLE: // No conversion necessary.
      {
        char tmp_type = static_cast<char> (type);
        os.write (&tmp_type, 1);
        std::streamsize n_bytes = 8 * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len);
        os.write (reinterpret_cast<const char *> (data), n_bytes);
      }
      break;

    default:
      (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
        ("unrecognized data format requested");
      break;
    }
}

void
write_floats (std::ostream& os, const float *data, save_type type,
              octave_idx_type len)
{
  switch (type)
    {
    case LS_U_CHAR:
      LS_DO_WRITE (uint8_t, data, 1, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_U_SHORT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (uint16_t, data, 2, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_U_INT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (uint32_t, data, 4, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_CHAR:
      LS_DO_WRITE (int8_t, data, 1, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_SHORT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (int16_t, data, 2, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_INT:
      LS_DO_WRITE (int32_t, data, 4, len, os);
      break;

    case LS_FLOAT: // No conversion necessary.
      {
        char tmp_type = static_cast<char> (type);
        os.write (&tmp_type, 1);
        std::streamsize n_bytes = 4 * static_cast<std::streamsize> (len);
        os.write (reinterpret_cast<const char *> (data), n_bytes);
      }
      break;

    case LS_DOUBLE:
      LS_DO_WRITE (double, data, 8, len, os);
      break;

    default:
      (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
        ("unrecognized data format requested");
      break;
    }
}