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29 .TH LOGB 3 2021-03-22 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
31 logb, logbf, logbl \- get exponent of a floating-point value
36 .BI "double logb(double " x );
37 .BI "float logbf(float " x );
38 .BI "long double logbl(long double " x );
44 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
45 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
50 _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
51 || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
52 .\" || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
53 || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
54 || /* Glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
60 _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
61 || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
62 || /* Glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
65 These functions extract the exponent from the
66 internal floating-point representation of
68 and return it as a floating-point value.
73 indicates the radix used for the system's floating-point representation.
79 .BI floor(log2( x ))\fR,
80 except that it is probably faster.
88 would have if it were normalized.
90 On success, these functions return the exponent of
100 is zero, then a pole error occurs, and the functions return
109 is negative infinity or positive infinity, then
110 positive infinity is returned.
114 for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred
115 when calling these functions.
117 The following errors can occur:
119 Pole error: \fIx\fP is 0
123 A divide-by-zero floating-point exception
127 These functions do not set
129 .\" FIXME . Is it intentional that these functions do not set errno?
130 .\" log(), log2(), log10() do set errno
131 .\" Bug raised: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6793
136 .\" function occurs in 4.3BSD.
137 .\" see IEEE.3 in the 4.3BSD manual
139 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
147 Interface Attribute Value
152 T} Thread safety MT-Safe
158 C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.