Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:00:12 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, mike@smith.net.au Cc: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jobaldwi@vt.edu Subject: Re: Bug in rintf()?... Message-ID: <199810220200.MAA04831@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> >> rintf(3.5) returns 4.0 >> >> rintf(3910.5) returns 3910.0 (should return 3911.0) >> >> This seems to be correct. rintf() rounds to the nearest integer according >> to the prevailing rounding mode. The default prevailing rounding mode >> is round-to-even. rintf() even seems to get this right for all the >> other rounding modes (towards +Inf, towards -Inf and towards 0). > >Where do you set the rounding mode? The only reference I could find >was fpsetround(), which offers nearest, -inf, +inf and truncate. One way is sufficent. >math(3) lists 3 types for ieee754 (+inf, -inf and 0). Also the standard type (round to even). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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