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diff --git a/man3/significand.3 b/man3/significand.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..794955a --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/significand.3 @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later +.\" +.\" heavily based on glibc infopages, copyright Free Software Foundation +.\" +.TH significand 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +significand, significandf, significandl \- +get mantissa of floating-point number +.SH LIBRARY +Math library +.RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <math.h> +.PP +.BI "double significand(double " x ); +.BI "float significandf(float " x ); +.BI "long double significandl(long double " x ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR significand (), +.BR significandf (), +.BR significandl (): +.nf + /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE + || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +These functions return the mantissa of +.I x +scaled to the range [1,2). +They are equivalent to +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +scalb(x, (double) \-ilogb(x)) +.EE +.in +.PP +This function exists mainly for use in certain standardized tests +for IEEE 754 conformance. +.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 significand (), +.BR significandf (), +.BR significandl () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.TP +.BR significand () +BSD. +.SH HISTORY +.TP +.BR significand () +BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR ilogb (3), +.BR scalb (3) |