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29*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Dd February 12, 2003
30*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Dt ISGREATER 3
31*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Os
32*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh NAME
33*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Nm isgreater , isgreaterequal , isless , islessequal ,
34*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Nm islessgreater , isunordered
35*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Nd "compare two floating-point numbers"
36*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh LIBRARY
37*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Lb libc
38*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh SYNOPSIS
39*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.In math.h
40*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Ft int
41*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
42*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Ft int
43*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isgreaterequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
44*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Ft int
45*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isless "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
46*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Ft int
47*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn islessequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
48*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Ft int
49*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn islessgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
50*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Ft int
51*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isunordered "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
52*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh DESCRIPTION
53*2fe8fb19SBen GrasEach of the macros
54*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isgreater ,
55*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isgreaterequal ,
56*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isless ,
57*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn islessequal ,
58*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand
59*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn islessgreater
60*2fe8fb19SBen Grastake arguments
61*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa x
62*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand
63*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa y
64*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand return a non-zero value if and only if its nominal
65*2fe8fb19SBen Grasrelation on
66*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa x
67*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand
68*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa y
69*2fe8fb19SBen Grasis true.
70*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThese macros always return zero if either
71*2fe8fb19SBen Grasargument is not a number (NaN), but unlike the corresponding C
72*2fe8fb19SBen Grasoperators, they never raise a floating point exception.
73*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Pp
74*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe
75*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isunordered
76*2fe8fb19SBen Grasmacro takes arguments
77*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa x
78*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand
79*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa y
80*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand returns non-zero if and only if neither
81*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa x
82*2fe8fb19SBen Grasnor
83*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fa y
84*2fe8fb19SBen Grasare NaNs.
85*2fe8fb19SBen GrasFor any pair of floating-point values, one
86*2fe8fb19SBen Grasof the relationships (less, greater, equal, unordered) holds.
87*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh SEE ALSO
88*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr fpclassify 3 ,
89*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr math 3 ,
90*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr signbit 3
91*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh STANDARDS
92*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe
93*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isgreater ,
94*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isgreaterequal ,
95*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isless ,
96*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn islessequal ,
97*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn islessgreater ,
98*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand
99*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn isunordered
100*2fe8fb19SBen Grasmacros conform to
101*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.St -isoC-99 .
102*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh HISTORY
103*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe relational macros described above first appeared in
104*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Nx 5.0 .
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