1.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information 6.\" Processing Systems. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 17.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 18.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 19.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 20.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 21.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 22.\" without specific prior written permission. 23.\" 24.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 25.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 26.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 27.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 28.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 29.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 30.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 31.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 32.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 33.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 34.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 35.\" 36.\" @(#)ldexp.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 37.\" 38.Dd April 19, 1994 39.Dt LDEXP 3 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm ldexp 43.Nd multiply floating-point number by integral power of 2 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Fd #include <math.h> 46.Ft double 47.Fn ldexp "double x" "int exp" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn ldexp 51function multiplies a floating-point number by an integral 52power of 2. 53.Sh RETURN VALUES 54The 55.Fn ldexp 56function returns the value of 57.Fa x 58times 2 raised to the power 59.Fa exp . 60.Pp 61If the resultant value would cause an overflow, 62the global variable 63.Va errno 64is set to 65.Er ERANGE 66and the value 67.Dv HUGE 68is returned. 69.Sh SEE ALSO 70.Xr frexp 3 , 71.Xr math 3 , 72.Xr modf 3 73.Sh STANDARDS 74The 75.Fn ldexp 76function conforms to 77.St -ansiC . 78