Commit 7576179a authored by Russ Cox's avatar Russ Cox

spec: document fp rounding during explicit constant conversion

The gc compilers already behave this way. It was an explicit
decision during the very long constant design discussions,
but it appears not to have made it into the spec.

Fixes #4398.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7313069
parent 0a22018d
......@@ -3470,6 +3470,14 @@ type <code>T</code> in any of these cases:
<code>x</code> is representable by a value of type <code>T</code>.
</li>
<li>
<code>x</code> is a floating-point constant,
<code>T</code> is a floating-point type,
and <code>x</code> is representable by a value
of type <code>T</code> after rounding using
IEEE 754 round-to-even rules.
The constant <code>T(x)</code> is the rounded value.
</li>
<li>
<code>x</code> is an integer constant and <code>T</code> is a
<a href="#String_types">string type</a>.
The same rule as for non-constant <code>x</code> applies in this case
......@@ -3485,6 +3493,7 @@ Converting a constant yields a typed constant as result.
uint(iota) // iota value of type uint
float32(2.718281828) // 2.718281828 of type float32
complex128(1) // 1.0 + 0.0i of type complex128
float32(0.49999999) // 0.5 of type float32
string('x') // "x" of type string
string(0x266c) // "♬" of type string
MyString("foo" + "bar") // "foobar" of type MyString
......
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