printf("%.0f", 0.5) and round-to-even

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Wed Oct 1 13:28:00 GMT 2008


Based on a report on bug-gnu-utils:
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2008-09/msg00055.html
It looks like the printf family could use a QoI improvement when dealing with 
IEEE round-to-even rules.  I'll try and look at making this improvement in the 
next few days.

                    glibc  newlib
printf("%.0f",0.5)      0       1
printf("%.0f",1.5)      2       1
printf("%.0f",2.5)      2       2
printf("%.0f",3.5)      4       3

-- 
Eric Blake




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