--- deliantra/server/include/util.h	2009/01/01 20:49:48	1.85
+++ deliantra/server/include/util.h	2009/05/05 04:51:56	1.88
@@ -120,13 +120,25 @@
 template<typename T>
 static inline T sign0 (T v) { return v ? sign (v) : 0; }
 
+// div* only work correctly for div > 0
 // div, with correct rounding (< 0.5 downwards, >=0.5 upwards)
-template<typename T> static inline T div    (T val, T div) { return (val + div / 2) / div; }
+template<typename T> static inline T div    (T val, T div)
+{
+  return expect_false (val < 0) ? - ((-val + (div - 1) / 2) / div) : (val + div / 2) / div;
+}
 // div, round-up
-template<typename T> static inline T div_ru (T val, T div) { return (val + div - 1) / div; }
+template<typename T> static inline T div_ru (T val, T div)
+{
+  return expect_false (val < 0) ? - ((-val                ) / div) : (val + div - 1) / div;
+}
 // div, round-down
-template<typename T> static inline T div_rd (T val, T div) { return (val          ) / div; }
+template<typename T> static inline T div_rd (T val, T div)
+{
+  return expect_false (val < 0) ? - ((-val + (div - 1)    ) / div) : (val          ) / div;
+}
 
+// lerp* only work correctly for min_in < max_in
+// Linear intERPolate, scales val from min_in..max_in to min_out..max_out
 template<typename T>
 static inline T
 lerp (T val, T min_in, T max_in, T min_out, T max_out)
@@ -411,6 +423,7 @@
 // http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper
 // this one is about 40% faster than the tausworthe one above (i.e. not much),
 // despite the inlining, and has the issue of only creating 2**32-1 numbers.
+// see also http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/xorshift.pdf
 struct xorshift_random_generator
 {
   uint32_t x, y;
@@ -677,13 +690,14 @@
 };
 
 // basically does what strncpy should do, but appends "..." to strings exceeding length
-void assign (char *dst, const char *src, int maxlen);
+// returns the number of bytes actually used (including \0)
+int assign (char *dst, const char *src, int maxsize);
 
 // type-safe version of assign
 template<int N>
-inline void assign (char (&dst)[N], const char *src)
+inline int assign (char (&dst)[N], const char *src)
 {
-  assign ((char *)&dst, src, N);
+  return assign ((char *)&dst, src, N);
 }
 
 typedef double tstamp;