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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-06-16 12:02:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-06-16 12:19:24 +0200 |
| commit | 937a3e17a298f51857ad05af7bce029e16e5aefa (patch) | |
| tree | 00d246d430a85540f69ca326a5cc1414b25e49e5 /man/man3/rint.3 | |
| parent | a4d37517839f1a11a9c79c2d902aa02eb2fa8346 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-937a3e17a298f51857ad05af7bce029e16e5aefa.tar.gz | |
ceil.3, floor.3, rint.3, round.3: POSIX.1-2008 doesn't define errors
Cc: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/rint.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/rint.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/rint.3 b/man/man3/rint.3 index 8095e68ce2..5298d8c8c2 100644 --- a/man/man3/rint.3 +++ b/man/man3/rint.3 @@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ is integral, +0, \-0, NaN, or infinite, itself is returned. .SH ERRORS No errors occur. -POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for overflows, but see HISTORY. .SH ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see .BR attributes (7). @@ -124,7 +123,7 @@ or raise an .B FE_OVERFLOW exception). In practice, the result cannot overflow on any current machine, -so this error-handling stuff is just nonsense. +so this error-handling stuff was just nonsense. (More precisely, overflow can happen only when the maximum value of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa bits. For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers @@ -132,6 +131,7 @@ the maximum value of the exponent is 127 (respectively, 1023), and the number of mantissa bits including the implicit bit is 24 (respectively, 53).) +This was removed in POSIX.1-2008. .P If you want to store the rounded value in an integer type, you probably want to use one of the functions described in |