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Re: gawk round-up 0.5 bug?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: gawk round-up 0.5 bug?
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:47:10 -0700 (PDT)

> On the other hand, I would also file a glibc bug, since QoI argues
> that glibc should do the rounding according to the current
> rounding mode (and output 1), rather than truncating 0.5 to 0
> when rounding it to 0 decimal places.

Never-mind; I wasn't thinking.  Clearly, IEEE round-to-even means
0.5 rounds to 0, not 1.  I've gone ahead and filed a newlib bug,
and have no complaints about glibc's behavior.

-- 
Eric Blake

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