Why do most C compilers poxily round towards zero ?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <XTB6WKB at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> One of the most frustrating things about using floating point in C is the
>> poxy way rounds floating point numbers towards zero instead of -infinity.
>
>The same problem exists with the modulus operator. Mathematically, the
>modulus operator ...

C has no modulus operator.  `%' is documented in both K&R and ANSI C as
the remainder operator.
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