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Converting float to int can be undefined behavior and how to fix it


Converting float to int can be undefined behavior and how to fix it

All of these conversions are undefined behavior if the float is out of bounds for the int. [0] This is surprising, easy to miss and badly designed.

What float values could not be converted to int without undefined ...

1 A prvalue of a floating point type can be converted to a prvalue of an integer type. The conversion truncates; that is, the fractional part is ...

Float to integer conversion may result in undefined behavior #276

In all non-constant conversions involving floating-point or complex values, if the result type cannot represent the value the conversion ...

C++ Float to Int Conversion (How To Guide) | by ryan - Medium

These functions return a float, which is then implicitly converted to int. Be cautious: for very large floats, this implicit conversion can ...

How to actually convert float to int? - Arduino Forum

The implicit conversion will cause an overflow when you assign it to a long . The behavior is undefined in C++ for signed integer overflow ...

The overflow when converting from float to integer is undefined ...

This means that for C compilation platforms that implement IEEE 754 for floating-point the condition “the value can be represented in the new ...

float to int conversion

triggers undefined behavior. Yes, that's what I suspected after I tried Andrew's example. ... change float to double and everything will be fine.

Why does making int* to float* conversions undefined behavior help ...

This performs an implicit conversion from type float to type int , resulting in n having the value 3 (the conversion truncates). The code is ...

floating point to integer casts can cause undefined behaviour #10184

A flag has been implemented in the compiler, -Zsaturating-float-casts, which will cause all float to integer casts have saturating behavior.

What is the behaviour on converting a negative floating point value ...

Standard quotes would be appreciated. The problem I'm facing is conversion into values of unsigned integral types from a variant class, that ...

C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior: part 2 of 11

Narrowing conversions from float to signed or unsigned integers may result in undefined behavior if the value is unrepresentable in the integer ...

Casting a negative float to an unsigned int - Burkhard Stubert

The C++ Standard decrees that the result of such a cast is undefined. Introduction. I wrote the first version of this post in August 2013. It ...

Undefined behavior in C/C++ - Handmade Network

You can do that with simple comparison: f = (f > 0x1p23 ? f : (float)(int)f); If float is higher that "23 significant" bits, then it already ...

Implicit conversions - cppreference.com

A finite value of any real floating type can be implicitly converted to any integer type. ... int x = 1e10; // undefined behavior for 32-bit int.

@floatToInt, @intToFloat gone - Help - Ziggit

If the integer part of the floating point number cannot fit in the destination type, it invokes safety-checked Undefined Behavior. These ...

Why no warning? - Raspberry Pi Forums

In my example output line C shows that indeed a float with a value within the integer range will be converted to an integer and produce a correct result. Lines ...

64-bit double to int conversion - C++ Forum - CPlusPlus

That results in undefined behaviour; it isn't defined by the language standards. That value could be theoretically anything within the range of int variables.

Why type conversion between int and float causes data loss?

If the alignment requirements of types int and float are not the same, then this program potentially causes undefined behavior. If the ...

Why is type reinterpretation considered highly problematic in many ...

C++ disallows conversion from int to float , but you can convert from const int& to const float& , which is basically the same thing. – Bbrk24.

Float to Fixed Behavior - Source Ports - Doomworld

Multiplication with 1.0 and casting is identical. An int -> float cast will always lose the same amount of information, no matter how you do it.