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Programming-Guides/Porting_Vector_Intrinsics/sec_floatingpoint_rounding.xml

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<title>Floating-point rounding modes</title>
<para>The Intel (x86 / x86_64) and PowerISA architectures both support the
4 IEEE-754 rounding modes. Again while the Intel Intrinsic API allows the
application to change rounding modes via updates to the
<literal>MXCSR</literal> it is a bad idea
and should be replaced with the POSIX APIs (<literal>fegetround</literal> and
<literal>fesetround</literal>). </para>
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