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29 ceil, ceilf, ceill \- ceiling function: smallest integral value not
35 .BI "double ceil(double " x );
37 .BI "float ceilf(float " x );
39 .BI "long double ceill(long double " x );
45 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
46 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
53 _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
54 _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L;
61 These functions return the smallest integral value that is not less than
70 These functions return the ceiling of
75 is integral, +0, \-0, NaN, or infinite,
80 POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for overflows, but see NOTES.
82 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
88 functions are thread-safe.
96 SUSv2 and POSIX.1-2001 contain text about overflow (which might set
103 In practice, the result cannot overflow on any current machine,
104 so this error-handling stuff is just nonsense.
105 .\" The POSIX.1-2001 APPLICATION USAGE SECTION discusses this point.
106 (More precisely, overflow can happen only when the maximum value
107 of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa bits.
108 For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers
109 the maximum value of the exponent is 128 (respectively, 1024),
110 and the number of mantissa bits is 24 (respectively, 53).)
112 The integral value returned by these functions may be too large
113 to store in an integer type
117 To avoid an overflow, which will produce undefined results,
118 an application should perform a range check on the returned value
119 before assigning it to an integer type.