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Re: operation of 'round' function


From: Francesco Potorti`
Subject: Re: operation of 'round' function
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:59:36 +0100

   > but the documentation for rint does not mention even integers anywhere.
   > Rather, it makes reference to the current rounding mode:
   >  [...]
   > Which again says nothing about even integers.
   
   You should be able to find that info in the Intel manual (assuming an
   x86 CPU).  It says that under the default rounding mode,
   
      [...] If two values are equally close, the result is the even value
      (that is, the one with the least-significant bit of zero).
   
My point is that this info should be included into the libc manual.



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