Re: operation of 'round' function

[David Kastrup]

deego@glue.umd.edu (Deepak Goel) writes:

> > Your interpretation of the docstring is incorrect.  The docstring
> > actually says nothing about what should happen in the cases when
> > the fractional part is exactly 0.5.  
> 
> 
> And in such cases, the 'standard' solution is indeed to round it to
> the nearest even integer...

It should be mentioned in the docstring whether Emacs in this case is
guaranteed to round to even, or whether this depends on the
machine/compiler combination on which Emacs is compiled.

Apart from which, this case should be mentioned in any form in the doc
string in the first place.

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