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To: Paul Engel who wrote (21494)5/13/1997 1:54:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b   of 186894
 
Paul, I spent a better part of today just looking for a standard math function that accepts a float and returns an int. None. They all return floats or doubles, I can't imagine any library function would accept a float/double as an argument and then internally narrow the value to int and then return a float/double. If, and I mean really big if one of these functions did narrow the value to int, they would most assuredly use some form of checking to trigger an overflow (IE) error, whether it be via the IE status bit or a simple "if statement" is of course implimentation dependant. But again - why narrow the value when you plan to return a float or double. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

This of course doesn't stop some fool from doing an accuracy narrowing assignment in home grown code.

Anyway, it's pretty moot now - we have a lawsuit to change the focus entirely.
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