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27.Dd February 12, 2003
28.Dt ISGREATER 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm isgreater , isgreaterequal , isless , islessequal ,
32.Nm islessgreater , isunordered
33.Nd "compare two floating-point numbers"
34.Sh LIBRARY
35.Lb libc
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In math.h
38.Ft int
39.Fn isgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
40.Ft int
41.Fn isgreaterequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
42.Ft int
43.Fn isless "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
44.Ft int
45.Fn islessequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
46.Ft int
47.Fn islessgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
48.Ft int
49.Fn isunordered "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51Each of the macros
52.Fn isgreater ,
53.Fn isgreaterequal ,
54.Fn isless ,
55.Fn islessequal ,
56and
57.Fn islessgreater
58take arguments
59.Fa x
60and
61.Fa y
62and return a non-zero value if and only if its nominal
63relation on
64.Fa x
65and
66.Fa y
67is true.
68These macros always return zero if either
69argument is not a number (NaN), but unlike the corresponding C
70operators, they never raise a floating point exception.
71.Pp
72The
73.Fn isunordered
74macro takes arguments
75.Fa x
76and
77.Fa y
78and returns non-zero if and only if neither
79.Fa x
80nor
81.Fa y
82are NaNs.
83For any pair of floating-point values, one
84of the relationships (less, greater, equal, unordered) holds.
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr fpclassify 3 ,
87.Xr math 3 ,
88.Xr signbit 3
89.Sh STANDARDS
90The
91.Fn isgreater ,
92.Fn isgreaterequal ,
93.Fn isless ,
94.Fn islessequal ,
95.Fn islessgreater ,
96and
97.Fn isunordered
98macros conform to
99.St -isoC-99 .
100.Sh HISTORY
101The relational macros described above first appeared in
102.Fx 5.1 .
103