remainder(3) | Library Functions Manual | remainder(3) |
drem, dremf, dreml, remainder, remainderf, remainderl - floating-point remainder function
Math library (libm, -lm)
#include <math.h>
/* The C99 versions */ double remainder(double x, double y); float remainderf(float x, float y); long double remainderl(long double x, long double y);
/* Obsolete synonyms */ double drem(double x, double y); float dremf(float x, float y); long double dreml(long double x, long double y);
remainder():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
remainderf(), remainderl():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
drem(), dremf(), dreml():
/* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
These functions compute the remainder of dividing x by y. The return value is x-n*y, where n is the value x / y, rounded to the nearest integer. If the absolute value of x-n*y is 0.5, n is chosen to be even.
These functions are unaffected by the current rounding mode (see fenv(3)).
The drem() function does precisely the same thing.
On success, these functions return the floating-point remainder, x-n*y. If the return value is 0, it has the sign of x.
If x or y is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If x is an infinity, and y is not a NaN, a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned.
If y is zero, and x is not a NaN, a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned.
See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions.
The following errors can occur:
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
drem (), dremf (), dreml (), remainder (), remainderf (), remainderl () | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
The functions remainder(), remainderf(), and remainderl() are specified in C99, POSIX.1-2001, and POSIX.1-2008.
The function drem() is from 4.3BSD. The float and long double variants dremf() and dreml() exist on some systems, such as Tru64 and glibc2. Avoid the use of these functions in favor of remainder() etc.
Before glibc 2.15, the call
remainder(nan(""), 0);
returned a NaN, as expected, but wrongly caused a domain error. Since glibc 2.15, a silent NaN (i.e., no domain error) is returned.
Before glibc 2.15, errno was not set to EDOM for the domain error that occurs when x is an infinity and y is not a NaN.
The call "remainder(29.0, 3.0)" returns -1.
2023-02-05 | Linux man-pages 6.03 |