From: buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
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Subject: Re: Rounding doubles to ints
Date: 2 Jun 2000 10:27:00 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>IIRC, the version of `rint' in libm.a rounds correctly in a way that
>doesn't depend on the rounding mode (and without fiddling it).

rint() depends on the rounding mode, as it should. The source code
(that is difficult to understand), seems to do the equivalent of
the three-liner I posted.