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1.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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25.\" References consulted:
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27.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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29.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
30.\" Modified 2002-08-10 by Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
4b8c67d9 31.TH COPYSIGN 3 2017-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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32.SH NAME
33copysign, copysignf, copysignl \- copy sign of a number
34.SH SYNOPSIS
35.nf
36.B #include <math.h>
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fea681da 38.BI "double copysign(double " x ", double " y );
fea681da 39.BI "float copysignf(float " x ", float " y );
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40.BI "long double copysignl(long double " x ", long double " y );
41.fi
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20c58d70 43Link with \fI\-lm\fP.
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45.in -4n
46Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
47.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
48.in
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50.ad l
51.BR copysign (),
e0bf9127 52.BR copysignf (),
cc4615cc 53.BR copysignl ():
f6e22dbb 54.RS 4
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55_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L
56 || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
57 || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
f6e22dbb 58.RE
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fea681da 60.SH DESCRIPTION
5600f73a 61These functions return a value whose absolute value matches that of
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62.IR x ,
63but whose sign bit matches that of
64.IR y .
847e0d88 65.PP
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66For example,
67.I "copysign(42.0,\ \-1.0)"
68and
69.I "copysign(\-42.0, \-1.0)"
70both return \-42.0.
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71.SH RETURN VALUE
72On success, these functions return a value whose magnitude is taken from
73.I x