[MITgcm-devel] testreports broken on SunOS

[chris hill]

The way to do this portably in C is to create a function called nint() 
that uses a combination of ceil() and floor()!

Chris
Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> we had before INT(log10(relerr)) (I write it in fortran, so that 
> I know what I am talking about) and I though it would be better
> to truncate to the nearest integer, and to do: NINT(log10(relerr)).
> The reason is that even with 15 digits of matching, the INT(log10(relerr))
> often return 14, whereas NINT(log10(relerr)) give a closer estimation of
> the accuracy (in number of digits).
> 
> So, it seems that it's hard to find a simple c program that
> will work on any platform and will just do the same thing as "NINT"
> in fortran. Ed, what is your opinion ?
> 
> Jean-Michel
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