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27.Dd January 26, 2005
28.Dt FPCLASSIFY 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm fpclassify , isfinite , isinf , isnan , isnormal
32.Nd "classify a floating-point number"
33.Sh LIBRARY
34.Lb libm
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In math.h
37.Ft int
38.Fn fpclassify "real-floating x"
39.Ft int
40.Fn isfinite "real-floating x"
41.Ft int
42.Fn isinf "real-floating x"
43.Ft int
44.Fn isnan "real-floating x"
45.Ft int
46.Fn isnormal "real-floating x"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn fpclassify
50macro takes an argument of
51.Fa x
52and returns one of the following manifest constants.
53.Bl -tag -width ".Dv FP_SUBNORMAL"
54.It Dv FP_INFINITE
55Indicates that
56.Fa x
57is an infinite number.
58.It Dv FP_NAN
59Indicates that
60.Fa x
61is not a number (NaN).
62.It Dv FP_NORMAL
63Indicates that
64.Fa x
65is a normalized number.
66.It Dv FP_SUBNORMAL
67Indicates that
68.Fa x
69is a denormalized number.
70.It Dv FP_ZERO
71Indicates that
72.Fa x
73is zero (0 or \-0).
74.El
75.Pp
76The
77.Fn isfinite
78macro returns a non-zero value if and only if its argument has
79a finite (zero, subnormal, or normal) value.
80The
81.Fn isinf ,
82.Fn isnan ,
83and
84.Fn isnormal
85macros return non-zero if and only if
86.Fa x
87is an infinity, NaN,
88or a non-zero normalized number, respectively.
89.Pp
90The symbol
91.Fn isnanf
92is provided as an alias to
93.Fn isnan
94for compatibility, and its use is deprecated.
95Similarly,
96.Fn finite
97and
98.Fn finitef
99are deprecated versions of
100.Fn isfinite .
101.Sh SEE ALSO
102.Xr isgreater 3 ,
103.Xr math 3 ,
104.Xr signbit 3
105.Sh STANDARDS
106The
107.Fn fpclassify ,
108.Fn isfinite ,
109.Fn isinf ,
110.Fn isnan ,
111and
112.Fn isnormal
113macros conform to
114.St -isoC-99 .
115.Sh HISTORY
116The
117.Fn fpclassify ,
118.Fn isfinite ,
119.Fn isinf ,
120.Fn isnan ,
121and
122.Fn isnormal
123macros were added in
124.Fx 5.1 .
125.Bx 3
126introduced
127.Fn isinf
128and
129.Fn isnan
130functions, which accepted
131.Vt double
132arguments; these have been superseded by the macros
133described above.
134