Floating point rounding modes: we should restrict them slightly
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aliloko at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 01:36:50 PDT 2009
Why not imposing a rounding mode (ex : toward minus infinity) ?
And then disallowing to change it in assembly.
I mean, you can still do :
round(x) as floor(x + 0.5L)
ceil(x) as floor(x + 1.0L)
Iit would cost some precision with large floating-point number, but not much since rounding such large numbers has few meaning.
It would clear up the rounding-mode mess a bit.
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