narrowing primitive casts

[Jeff Gaer]

how are the values determined in the following narrowing casts?
Is float f truncated or rounded to an int first? or are the bit patterns just assigned.

float f=2.3f;
byte b=(byte)f;
int b=(int)f;

[Anonymous]

The java just trancates the float value. it wont round it.
~Kumar
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[Peter den Haan]

Incorrect, I'm afraid. In both cases, the floating point number will be rounded to an integer (JLS 5.1.3). In the conversion to byte, the integer is subsequently truncated to a byte value.
This two-step process can have remarkable side effects, for instance

float f = Float.MAX_VALUE;
System.out.println((int)f);
System.out.println((byte)f);

This prints

2147483647
-1

The explanation is left as an exercise for the reader
It would be impossible to truncate a float to an int anyway - the representations are completely different, you don't get an int by simply slicing a few bits off a float. In fact int and float have the same number of bits (32).
- Peter
[This message has been edited by Peter den Haan (edited November 26, 2001).]

[Jeff Gaer]

public class IntTest {
/** Creates new IntTest */
public IntTest() {
}
public static void main(String [] args){
double d=9.9;
int i=(int)d;
byte b=(byte)d;
long l=(long)d;
System.out.println( "int =["+i+"] byte=["+b+"] long=["+l+"]");
}

}
outputs:
int =[9] byte=[9] long=[9]

looks like truncation is the right answer.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Did you read JLS 5.1.3? "... the floating-point value is rounded to an integer value V, rounding toward zero using IEEE 754 round-toward-zero mode."

[Jeff Gaer]

Think its my sloppy use of truncate. By truncate, I meant truncate the decimal part, which is effectively rounding towards 0. Not truncate as it probably should be interpreted, truncating the bits in the float. Thanks for the clarification.