FPCLASSIFY(3)		   Linux Programmers Manual		FPCLASSIFY(3)



NAME
       fpclassify, isfinite, isnormal, isnan, isinf - floating-point classifi
       cation macros

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       int fpclassify(x);

       int isfinite(x);

       int isnormal(x);

       int isnan(x);

       int isinf(x);

       Link with -lm.

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       fpclassify(), isfinite(), isnormal(): _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 ||
       _ISOC99_SOURCE; or cc -std=c99
       isnan(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE ||
       _ISOC99_SOURCE; or cc -std=c99
       isinf(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 ||
       _ISOC99_SOURCE; or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION
       Floating  point	numbers  can  have special values, such as infinite or
       NaN.  With the macro fpclassify(x) you can find out  what  type	x  is.
       The  macro takes any floating-point expression as argument.  The result
       is one of the following values:

       FP_NAN x is "Not a Number".

       FP_INFINITE
	      x is either plus or minus infinity.

       FP_ZERO
	      x is zero.

       FP_SUBNORMAL
	      x is too small to be represented in normalized format.

       FP_NORMAL
	      if nothing of the above is correct then  it  must  be  a	normal
	      floating-point number.

       The other macros provide a short answer to some standard questions.

       isfinite(x)
	      returns a non-zero value if
	      (fpclassify(x) != FP_NAN && fpclassify(x) != FP_INFINITE)

       isnormal(x)
	      returns a non-zero value if (fpclassify(x) == FP_NORMAL)

       isnan(x)
	      returns a non-zero value if (fpclassify(x) == FP_NAN)

       isinf(x)
	      returns  1  if  x  is positive infinity, and -1 if x is negative
	      infinity.

CONFORMING TO
       C99.

NOTES
       In glibc 2.01 and earlier, isinf() returns a non-zero value  (actually:
       1)  if  x is an infinity (positive or negative).  (This is all that C99
       requires.)

SEE ALSO
       finite(3), INFINITY(3), isgreater(3)

COLOPHON
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				  2007-07-26			 FPCLASSIFY(3)