Re: Trunc and Round in GLIBC

[Andreas Schwab]

"Dhiraj Sharma" <address@hidden> writes:

|> I am running into anomalous behavior of trunc() and round() on Red Hat 7.3 
(no changes made from my side at all) running on an Intel Pentium CPU. The 
following program gives me two numbers, both 0.
|> 
|> #include <stdio.h>
|> #include <math.h>
|> int main() {
|>    printf("%f\n", trunc(2.1);
|>    printf("%f\n", round(2.1);
|> }
|> 
|> If I use truncf and roundf, I get some random numbers. Other functions, such 
as, rint, floor, ceil give expected results. 
|> 
|> If I am doing something wrong, it is totally unknown to me. I would 
appreciate help in this regard. Thank you very much in advance.

Try "gcc -Wall", it will tell you that trunc and round are implicitly
defined.  You need to define _ISOC99_SOURCE (or _GNU_SOURCE), *note
(libc)Feature Test Macros::.

Andreas.

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