Does casting to an int after std::floor guarantee the right result?

Question

I\'d like a floor function with the syntax

int floor(double x);

but std::floor returns a double. Is<

Answer 1

If you want to deal with various numeric conditions and want to handle different types of conversions in a controlled way, then maybe you should look at the Boost.NumericConversion. This library allows to handle weird cases (like out-of-range, rounding, ranges, etc.)

Here is the example from the documentation:

#include 
#include 

int main() {

    typedef boost::numeric::converter Double2Int ;

    int x = Double2Int::convert(2.0);
    assert ( x == 2 );

    int y = Double2Int()(3.14); // As a function object.
    assert ( y == 3 ) ; // The default rounding is trunc.

    try
    {
        double m = boost::numeric::bounds::highest();
        int z = Double2Int::convert(m); // By default throws positive_overflow()
    }
    catch ( boost::numeric::positive_overflow const& )
    {
    }

    return 0;
}