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diff --git a/man3/nan.3 b/man3/nan.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fa95b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/nan.3 @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Based on glibc infopages +.\" +.\" Corrections by aeb +.\" +.TH nan 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +nan, nanf, nanl \- return 'Not a Number' +.SH LIBRARY +Math library +.RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <math.h> +.PP +.BI "double nan(const char *" tagp ); +.BI "float nanf(const char *" tagp ); +.BI "long double nanl(const char *" tagp ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR nan (), +.BR nanf (), +.BR nanl (): +.nf + _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +These functions return a representation (determined by +.IR tagp ) +of a quiet NaN. +If the implementation does not support +quiet NaNs, these functions return zero. +.PP +The call +.I nan("char\-sequence") +is equivalent to: +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +strtod("NAN(char\-sequence)", NULL); +.EE +.in +.PP +Similarly, calls to +.BR nanf () +and +.BR nanl () +are equivalent to analogous calls to +.BR strtof (3) +and +.BR strtold (3). +.PP +The argument +.I tagp +is used in an unspecified manner. +On IEEE 754 systems, there are many representations of NaN, and +.I tagp +selects one. +On other systems it may do nothing. +.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 nan (), +.BR nanf (), +.BR nanl () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.PP +See also IEC 559 and the appendix with +recommended functions in IEEE 754/IEEE 854. +.SH HISTORY +glibc 2.1. +C99, POSIX.1-2001. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR isnan (3), +.BR strtod (3), +.BR math_error (7) |