[Haskell-cafe] rounding and undefined behavior

Hi cafe, It's been my general impression that when neither Haskell nor C defines behavior in a particular situation, the behavior nonetheless matches. I was surprised to observe Prelude Data.Int> round (4294967295 :: Double) :: Int16 -1 when #include #include int main(void) { double d = 4294967295; int16_t r = (int16_t) d; printf("%"PRId16"\n", r); return 0; } yields 0 when compiled and run. As far as I can tell, neither language defines what this result should be, so neither is doing anything wrong here. But I was surprised that they differ; does anyone know why Haskell's rounding operation behaves the way it does (maybe there is some historical reason)? Or can someone perhaps point me to a standards document I missed that states how the language must round out-of-bounds inputs? Regards Matt Peddie