Re: Rounding of results in conversion of IEEE floats to integers

In article <12od5jj1hq7dt52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Dan Kelly <knivesandstabbingweapons@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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As I understand, floating point conversion should be provided as a
fundamental operation in an IEEE compliant FP implementation.
Furthermore, in conversions the rounding schemes below should apply in
the same way that they are applied to the result of one of the
operations (+,-,*,/).

That is only the case if you use IEEE compliant conversion routines.

direct_conv = (int)float_a;
add_conv = (int)(float_b + float_c);

These are casts, and by the C standard in such a case the fractional
part should be removed, i.e., there is an truncation in the direction
of 0 involved.
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