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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:48:55 -0400
From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] c99 div and mod round toward zero
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 > is this [rounding to 0] fixed, or an archiitechture-dependent thing?  i don't
 > have a way of checking anything else.

In C89 it was allowed to vary by architecture (subject to obvious consistency
constraints).  In C99 the result is well-determined, and does round to 0.
This is consistent with the usual math convention, but
in fact not necessarily best (e.g. for graphics, as Rob has pointed out).

	Dennis