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1 | .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) |
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25 | .\" References consulted: | |
26 | .\" Linux libc source code | |
27 | .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) | |
28 | .\" 386BSD man pages | |
29 | .\" Modified Mon Mar 29 22:31:13 1993, David Metcalfe | |
30 | .\" Modified Sun Jun 6 23:27:50 1993, David Metcalfe | |
31 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:45:37 1993, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
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8980a500 | 34 | .TH ABS 3 2014-08-19 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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35 | .SH NAME |
36 | abs, labs, llabs, imaxabs \- compute the absolute value of an integer | |
37 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
38 | .nf | |
39 | .B #include <stdlib.h> | |
40 | .sp | |
41 | .BI "int abs(int " j ); | |
42 | .br | |
43 | .BI "long int labs(long int " j ); | |
44 | .br | |
45 | .BI "long long int llabs(long long int " j ); | |
46 | .sp | |
47 | .B #include <inttypes.h> | |
48 | .sp | |
49 | .BI "intmax_t imaxabs(intmax_t " j ); | |
50 | .fi | |
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51 | .sp |
52 | .in -4n | |
53 | Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see | |
54 | .BR feature_test_macros (7)): | |
55 | .in | |
56 | .sp | |
e0a98111 | 57 | .ad l |
cc4615cc | 58 | .BR llabs (): |
e0a98111 | 59 | .RS 4 |
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60 | _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || |
61 | _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L; | |
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62 | .br |
63 | or | |
cc4615cc | 64 | .I cc\ -std=c99 |
c9f2ff9d | 65 | .RE |
e0a98111 | 66 | .ad |
fea681da | 67 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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68 | The |
69 | .BR abs () | |
70 | function computes the absolute value of the integer | |
c13182ef | 71 | argument \fIj\fP. |
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72 | The |
73 | .BR labs (), | |
74 | .BR llabs () | |
75 | and | |
76 | .BR imaxabs () | |
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77 | functions compute the absolute value of the argument \fIj\fP of the |
78 | appropriate integer type for the function. | |
47297adb | 79 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
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80 | Returns the absolute value of the integer argument, of the appropriate |
81 | integer type for the function. | |
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82 | .SH ATTRIBUTES |
83 | .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) | |
84 | The | |
85 | .BR abs (), | |
86 | .BR labs (), | |
87 | .BR llabs (), | |
88 | and | |
89 | .BR imaxabs () | |
90 | functions are thread-safe. | |
47297adb | 91 | .SH CONFORMING TO |
c13182ef | 92 | SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C99. |
33a0ccb2 | 93 | .\" POSIX.1 (1996 edition) requires only the |
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94 | .\" .BR abs () |
95 | .\" function. | |
68e1685c | 96 | C89 only |
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97 | includes the |
98 | .BR abs () | |
99 | and | |
100 | .BR labs () | |
101 | functions; the functions | |
102 | .BR llabs () | |
103 | and | |
104 | .BR imaxabs () | |
105 | were added in C99. | |
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106 | .SH NOTES |
107 | Trying to take the absolute value of the most negative integer | |
108 | is not defined. | |
109 | .PP | |
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110 | The |
111 | .BR llabs () | |
2de012be | 112 | function is included in glibc since version 2.0. |
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113 | The |
114 | .BR imaxabs () | |
115 | function is included in | |
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116 | glibc since version 2.1.1. |
117 | .PP | |
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118 | For |
119 | .BR llabs () | |
120 | to be declared, it may be necessary to define | |
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121 | \fB_ISOC99_SOURCE\fP or \fB_ISOC9X_SOURCE\fP (depending on the |
122 | version of glibc) before including any standard headers. | |
123 | .PP | |
60a90ecd | 124 | GCC handles |
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125 | .BR abs (), |
126 | .BR labs (), | |
127 | and (since GCC 3.0) | |
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128 | .BR llabs () |
129 | and | |
130 | .BR imaxabs () | |
36ad6ae0 | 131 | as built-in functions. |
47297adb | 132 | .SH SEE ALSO |
36268806 | 133 | .BR cabs (3), |
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134 | .BR ceil (3), |
135 | .BR fabs (3), | |
136 | .BR floor (3), | |
137 | .BR rint (3) |