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isgreater, isgreaterequal, isless, islessequal, islessgreater, isunordered - floating-point relational tests without exception for NaN
#include <math.h>
int isgreater(x, y);
int isgreaterequal(x, y);
int isless(x, y);
int islessequal(x, y);
int islessgreater(x, y);
int isunordered(x, y);
Link with -lm.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
All functions described here:
The normal relational operations (like <, "less than") fail if one of the operands is NaN. This will cause an exception. To avoid this, C99 defines the macros listed below.
These macros are guaranteed to evaluate their arguments only once. The arguments must be of real floating-point type (note: do not pass integer values as arguments to these macros, since the arguments will not be promoted to real-floating types).
The macros other than isunordered() return the result of the relational comparison; these macros return 0 if either argument is a NaN.
isunordered() returns 1 if x or y is NaN and 0 otherwise.
No errors occur.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
isgreater (), isgreaterequal (), isless (), islessequal (), islessgreater (), isunordered () | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.
Not all hardware supports these functions, and where hardware support isn't provided, they will be emulated by macros. This will result in a performance penalty. Don't use these functions if NaN is of no concern for you.
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2017-09-15 |