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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/exp.3 b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/exp.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f78e0365 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/exp.3 @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk +.\" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified 1995-08-14 by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> +.\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms +.\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) +.\" +.TH exp 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.04" +.SH NAME +exp, expf, expl \- base-e exponential function +.SH LIBRARY +Math library +.RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <math.h> +.PP +.BI "double exp(double " x ); +.BI "float expf(float " x ); +.BI "long double expl(long double " x ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR expf (), +.BR expl (): +.nf + _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L + || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE + || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +These functions return the value of e (the base of natural +logarithms) raised to the power of +.IR x . +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, these functions return the exponential value of +.IR x . +.PP +If +.I x +is a NaN, +a NaN is returned. +.PP +If +.I x +is positive infinity, +positive infinity is returned. +.PP +If +.I x +is negative infinity, ++0 is returned. +.PP +If the result underflows, +a range error occurs, +and zero is returned. +.PP +If the result overflows, +a range error occurs, +and the functions return +.RB + HUGE_VAL , +.RB + HUGE_VALF , +or +.RB + HUGE_VALL , +respectively. +.SH ERRORS +See +.BR math_error (7) +for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred +when calling these functions. +.PP +The following errors can occur: +.TP +Range error, overflow +.I errno +is set to +.BR ERANGE . +An overflow floating-point exception +.RB ( FE_OVERFLOW ) +is raised. +.TP +Range error, underflow +.I errno +is set to +.BR ERANGE . +An underflow floating-point exception +.RB ( FE_UNDERFLOW ) +is raised. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.ad l +.nh +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.BR exp (), +.BR expf (), +.BR expl () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.hy +.ad +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +C99, POSIX.1-2001. +.PP +The variant returning +.I double +also conforms to +SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR cbrt (3), +.BR cexp (3), +.BR exp10 (3), +.BR exp2 (3), +.BR expm1 (3), +.BR sqrt (3) |