From: br5an AT aol DOT com (Br5an)
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Subject: Re: Floating point => int
Date: 10 Oct 1997 22:57:41 GMT
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Reinier Heeres wrote:

Hi!

>A floating point exception seems to occur sometimes when I convert a
>float to an int.
>I use _control87() to make sure all the floating point exceptions,
>except for the invalid operation exception, are handled internally. If I
>put the flag for the invalid operation exception on, my program seems to
>hang...

>How can I solve this problem??? Should I use another way to convert my
>float to an int?
>Or should I check my float isn't equal to some value?

     Reinier,
                    Sorry if I'm not quite understanding the problem.  Here's
 how I'd convert a float to an int in most cases....   iMyint  = (int)fMyFloat;
  or  iMyint = (int)(fMyFloat + .5);  if I wanted rounding.  Hope that's
 somewhat helpfull.
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