RINT(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual RINT(3P)PROLOG
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NAME
rint, rintf, rintl — round-to-nearest integral value
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
double rint(double x);
float rintf(float x);
long double rintl(long double x);
DESCRIPTION
The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the
ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here
and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2008
defers to the ISO C standard.
These functions shall return the integral value (represented as a dou‐
ble) nearest x in the direction of the current rounding mode. The cur‐
rent rounding mode is implementation-defined.
If the current rounding mode rounds toward negative infinity, then
rint() shall be equivalent to floor(). If the current rounding mode
rounds toward positive infinity, then rint() shall be equivalent to
ceil(). If the current rounding mode rounds towards zero, then rint()
shall be equivalent to trunc(). If the current rounding mode rounds
towards nearest, then rint() differs from round() in that halfway cases
are rounded to even rather than away from zero.
These functions differ from the nearbyint(), nearbyintf(), and nearby‐
intl() functions only in that they may raise the inexact floating-point
exception if the result differs in value from the argument.
An application wishing to check for error situations should set errno
to zero and call feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before calling these
functions. On return, if errno is non-zero or fetestexcept(FE_INVALID |
FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_OVERFLOW | FE_UNDERFLOW) is non-zero, an error has
occurred.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, these functions shall return the integer
(represented as a double precision number) nearest x in the direction
of the current rounding mode. The result shall have the same sign as
x.
If x is NaN, a NaN shall be returned.
If x is ±0 or ±Inf, x shall be returned.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLES
None.
APPLICATION USAGE
The integral value returned by these functions need not be expressible
as an intmax_t. The return value should be tested before assigning it
to an integer type to avoid the undefined results of an integer over‐
flow.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSOabs(), ceil(), feclearexcept(), fetestexcept(), floor(), isnan(), near‐
byint()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 4.19, Treatment of
Error Conditions for Mathematical Functions, <math.h>
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
-- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electri‐
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POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
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