What is the result of casting float +INF, -INF, and NAN to integer in C?

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Does any standard specifies what should be the output?

For example this code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  float a = INFINITY;
  float b = -INFINITY;
  float c = NAN;

  printf("float %f %f %f\n", a, b, c); 
  printf("int %d %d %d\n", (int) a, (int) b, (int) c); 
  printf("uint %u %u %u\n", (unsigned int) a, (unsigned int) b, (unsigned int) c); 
  printf("lint %ld %ld %ld\n", (long int) a, (long int) b, (long int) b); 
  printf("luint %lu %lu %lu\n", (unsigned long int) a, (unsigned long int) b, (unsigned long int) c); 

  return 0;
}

Compiled on gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664) Target: i686-apple-darwin10

Outputs:

$ gcc test.c && ./a.out 
float inf -inf nan
int -2147483648 -2147483648 -2147483648
uint 0 0 0
lint -9223372036854775808 -9223372036854775808 -9223372036854775808
luint 0 9223372036854775808 9223372036854775808

Which is quite weird. (int)+inf < 0 !?!

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