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30.Dd May 4, 2005
31.Dt NEXTAFTER 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm nextafter ,
35.Nm nextafterf ,
36.Nm nextafterl ,
37.Nm nexttoward ,
38.Nm nexttowardf ,
39.Nm nexttowardl
40.Nd next representable value
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libm
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In math.h
45.Ft double
46.Fn nextafter "double x" "double y"
47.Ft float
48.Fn nextafterf "float x" "float y"
49.Ft long double
50.Fn nextafterl "long double x" "long double y"
51.Ft double
52.Fn nexttoward "double x" "long double y"
53.Ft float
54.Fn nexttowardf "float x" "long double y"
55.Ft long double
56.Fn nexttowardl "long double x" "long double y"
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58These functions
59return the next machine representable number from
60.Fa x
61in direction
62.Fa y .
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr ieee 3 ,
65.Xr math 3
66.Sh STANDARDS
67The
68.Fn nextafter ,
69.Fn nextafterf ,
70.Fn nextafterl ,
71.Fn nexttoward ,
72.Fn nexttowardf ,
73and
74.Fn nexttowardl
75routines conform to
76.St -isoC-99 .
77They implement the Nextafter function recommended by
78.St -ieee754 ,
79with the extension that
80.Fn nextafter "+0.0" "-0.0"
81returns
82.Li -0.0 ,
83and
84.Fn nextafter "-0.0" "+0.0"
85returns
86.Li +0.0 .
87.Sh HISTORY
88The
89.Fn nextafter
90function appeared in
91.Bx 4.3 ,
92and
93.Fn nextafterf
94appeared in
95.Fx 2.0 .
96