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Re: Casting float to int - standard bug?

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From: Lars Wirzenius
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:01

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Re: the difficulty in checking whether a float value fits into an int.

Couldn't sprintf+strtol be used for this?  strtol has well-defined behaviour
for overflows.

(It's not elegant, of course.)

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