[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1976: r.mapcalc: Allow rounding of floating numbers

[Glynn Clements]

Paulo van Breugel wrote:

> >  > > The output type of round() is now the same like the input type.
> >  >
> >  > This changes long-standing behaviour in a way which could break scripts.
> >
> >  OK. Restoring the original behaviour for round(x) is easy. But it would be
> >  nice to have a round(x, y) function that preserves the data type of x in
> >  order to have a possibility to avoid integer overflow.
> 
> I am not sure I understand the solution proposed by Glyn, but does it mean
> we are back at the results of round always be an integer? That would be
> disappointing imho. Preserving the data type does make so much more sense.

No. With one argument, the result will be an integer, so the
long-standing behaviour will be preserved. If a second argument is
given, the result will have the same type as the second argument, so
e.g. round(x, 1.0) will return a double.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>