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Re: patch: docs for soft float routines

From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Joseph Myers <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:03:58 -0800
Subject: Re: patch: docs for soft float routines

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 08:45 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

<<These functions return the result of converting its floating point
argument to an integer, represented as a fixed point float.  Any
rounding done is rounding towards zero.>>
See the discussion in this thread:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-03/msg00798.html

R.

Ah, in that case, it's rounding towards zero because, in (fix:M N), M is a floating point mode. I missed that subtlety. So, the patch as I just posted, has the wording correct.

Aldy

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