This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: [rfc] rint() rounds to even
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
- Subject: Re: [rfc] rint() rounds to even
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 29 Jan 2001 14:59:58 -0800
- Cc: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, Ben Collins <bcollins at debian dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <200101292250.f0TMoSo16193@neuralgia.linnaean.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> At any rate, the GNU documentation should be easier to understand than the
> specification is--reading the manual is not supposed to be a test of
> personal pedanticism prowess.
This is not the reason and I don't agree with this claim. Leaving
things which the standard declares unspecified as such and not
document the current behavior allows to change the implementation if
this is wanted in future. And it is also less helpful for
cross-platform development to specify the current implementations
behavior since this could and would be interpreted as the general
truth.
--
---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace
Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------