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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/fpclassify.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/fpclassify.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cfb16be1 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/fpclassify.3 @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later +.\" +.\" This was done with the help of the glibc manual. +.\" +.\" 2004-10-31, aeb, corrected +.TH fpclassify 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +fpclassify, isfinite, isnormal, isnan, isinf \- floating-point +classification macros +.SH LIBRARY +Math library +.RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <math.h> +.PP +.BI "int fpclassify(" x ); +.BI "int isfinite(" x ); +.BI "int isnormal(" x ); +.BI "int isnan(" x ); +.BI "int isinf(" x ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.\" I haven't fully grokked the source to determine the FTM requirements; +.\" in part, the following has been tested by experiment. +.BR fpclassify (), +.BR isfinite (), +.BR isnormal (): +.nf + _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L +.fi +.PP +.BR isnan (): +.nf + _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L + || _XOPEN_SOURCE + || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE + || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE +.fi +.PP +.BR isinf (): +.nf + _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L + || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE + || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +Floating point numbers can have special values, such as +infinite or NaN. +With the macro +.BI fpclassify( x ) +you can find out what type +.I x +is. +The macro takes any floating-point expression as argument. +The result is one of the following values: +.TP 14 +.B FP_NAN +.I x +is "Not a Number". +.TP +.B FP_INFINITE +.I x +is either positive infinity or negative infinity. +.TP +.B FP_ZERO +.I x +is zero. +.TP +.B FP_SUBNORMAL +.I x +is too small to be represented in normalized format. +.TP +.B FP_NORMAL +if nothing of the above is correct then it must be a +normal floating-point number. +.PP +The other macros provide a short answer to some standard questions. +.TP 14 +.BI isfinite( x ) +returns a nonzero value if +.br +(fpclassify(x) != FP_NAN && fpclassify(x) != FP_INFINITE) +.TP +.BI isnormal( x ) +returns a nonzero value if +(fpclassify(x) == FP_NORMAL) +.TP +.BI isnan( x ) +returns a nonzero value if +(fpclassify(x) == FP_NAN) +.TP +.BI isinf( x ) +returns 1 if +.I x +is positive infinity, and \-1 if +.I x +is negative infinity. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR fpclassify (), +.BR isfinite (), +.BR isnormal (), +.BR isnan (), +.BR isinf () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C99. +.PP +In glibc 2.01 and earlier, +.BR isinf () +returns a nonzero value (actually: 1) if +.I x +is positive infinity or negative infinity. +(This is all that C99 requires.) +.SH NOTES +For +.BR isinf (), +the standards merely say that the return value is nonzero +if and only if the argument has an infinite value. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR finite (3), +.BR INFINITY (3), +.BR isgreater (3), +.BR signbit (3) |