Per IEEE-754 rounding rules. The round(3) page describes the behavior of rint and nearbyint in the halfway cases by saying: These functions round x to the nearest integer, but round halfway cases away from zero [...], instead of to the nearest even integer like rint(3) Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> --- man3/rint.3 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/rint.3 b/man3/rint.3 index d1bd302..06724e3 100644 --- a/man3/rint.3 +++ b/man3/rint.3 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ and functions round their argument to an integer value in floating-point format, using the current rounding direction (see .BR fesetround (3)) -and without raising the +and round halfway cases to the nearest even integer, without raising the .I inexact exception. .LP -- 2.0.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
