signbit - Man Page

test sign of a real floating-point number

Library

Math library (libm, -lm)

Synopsis

#include <math.h>

int signbit(x);

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

signbit():

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L

Description

signbit() is a generic macro which can work on all real floating-point types. It returns a nonzero value if the value of x has its sign bit set.

This is not the same as x < 0.0, because IEEE 754 floating point allows zero to be signed. The comparison -0.0 < 0.0 is false, but signbit(-0.0) will return a nonzero value.

NaNs and infinities have a sign bit.

Return Value

The signbit() macro returns nonzero if the sign of x is negative; otherwise it returns zero.

Errors

No errors occur.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
signbit()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

This function is defined in IEC 559 (and the appendix with recommended functions in IEEE 754/IEEE 854).

See Also

copysign(3)

Referenced By

copysign(3), fpclassify(3).

2023-10-31 Linux man-pages 6.06