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NAME¶
fabs, fabsf, fabsl - absolute value of floating-point number
LIBRARY¶
Math library (libm, -lm)
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <math.h>
double fabs(double x); float fabsf(float x); long double fabsl(long double x);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
feature_test_macros(7)):
fabsf(), fabsl():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION¶
These functions return the absolute value of the floating-point number x.
RETURN VALUE¶
These functions return the absolute value of x.
If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If x is -0, +0 is returned.
If x is negative infinity or positive infinity, positive infinity is returned.
ERRORS¶
No errors occur.
ATTRIBUTES¶
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
fabs (), fabsf (), fabsl () | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
STANDARDS¶
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY¶
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
SEE ALSO¶
2023-03-30 | Linux man-pages 6.04 |