On 03/13/2015 02:43 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > 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) Thanks, Matt. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man3/rint.3 | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man3/rint.3 b/man3/rint.3 > index d1bd302..59402a7 100644 > --- a/man3/rint.3 > +++ b/man3/rint.3 > @@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ format, using the current rounding direction (see > .BR fesetround (3)) > and without raising the > .I inexact > -exception. > +exception. When the current rounding direction is to nearest, these > +functions round halfway cases to the even integer in accordance with > +IEEE-754. > .LP > The > .BR rint (), > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
