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26.Dd July 8, 2018
27.Dt Q_SIGNED 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm Q_SIGNED ,
31.Nm Q_LTZ ,
32.Nm Q_PRECEQ ,
33.Nm Q_QLTQ ,
34.Nm Q_QLEQ ,
35.Nm Q_QGTQ ,
36.Nm Q_QGEQ ,
37.Nm Q_QEQ ,
38.Nm Q_QNEQ ,
39.Nm Q_OFLOW ,
40.Nm Q_RELPREC
41.Nd fixed-point math comparison and logic functions
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.In sys/qmath.h
44.Ft bool
45.Fn Q_SIGNED "NTYPE n"
46.Ft bool
47.Fn Q_LTZ "NTYPE n"
48.Ft bool
49.Fn Q_PRECEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
50.Ft bool
51.Fn Q_QLTQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
52.Ft bool
53.Fn Q_QLEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
54.Ft bool
55.Fn Q_QGTQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
56.Ft bool
57.Fn Q_QGEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
58.Ft bool
59.Fn Q_QEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
60.Ft bool
61.Fn Q_QNEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
62.Ft bool
63.Fn Q_OFLOW "QTYPE q" "ITYPE iv"
64.Ft int
65.Fn Q_RELPREC "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
66.Sh DESCRIPTION
67.Fn Q_SIGNED
68returns
69.Ft true
70if the numeric data type passed in as
71.Fa n
72is signed, or
73.Ft false
74otherwise.
75.Pp
76.Fn Q_LTZ
77returns
78.Ft true
79if the numeric value
80passed in as
81.Fa n
82is negative
83.Pq requires types which use the MSB as the sign bit ,
84or
85.Ft false
86otherwise.
87.Pp
88.Fn Q_PRECEQ
89returns
90.Ft true
91if the number of
92.Fa a
93and
94.Fa b
95fractional bits is the same,
96.Ft false
97otherwise.
98.Pp
99The
100.Fn Q_QLTQ ,
101.Fn Q_QLEQ ,
102.Fn Q_QGTQ ,
103.Fn Q_QGEQ ,
104.Fn Q_QEQ
105and
106.Fn Q_QNEQ
107functions compare two Q numbers, returning
108.Ft true
109if
110.Fa a
111is less than, less than or equal to, greater than, greater than or equal to,
112equal to, or not equal to
113.Fa b
114respectively, or
115.Ft false
116otherwise.
117The integral and fractional values are used to perform the comparison, without
118explicit concern for the underlying number of integer versus fractional bits.
119.Pp
120.Fn Q_OFLOW
121returns
122.Ft true
123if integer value
124.Fa iv
125cannot be stored in
126.Fa q
127without truncation, or false otherwise.
128.Pp
129.Fn Q_RELPREC
130returns the relative precision of
131.Fa a
132versus
133.Fa b .
134In terms of
135.Em Qm.n
136notation, this function returns the difference between the
137.Em n
138values of
139.Fa a
140and
141.Fa b .
142For example, a return value of +4 means that
143.Fa a
144has an additional 4 bits of fractional precision compared to
145.Fa b .
146.Pp
147All of those functions operate on
148the following data types:
149.Vt s8q_t ,
150.Vt u8q_t ,
151.Vt s16q_t ,
152.Vt u16q_t ,
153.Vt s32q_t ,
154.Vt u32q_t ,
155.Vt s64q_t ,
156and
157.Vt u64q_t ,
158which are referred to generically as
159.Fa QTYPE .
160The
161.Fa ITYPE
162refers to the
163.Xr stdint 7
164integer types.
165.Fa NTYPE
166is used to refer to any numeric type and is therefore a superset of
167.Fa QTYPE
168and
169.Fa ITYPE .
170.Pp
171For more details, see
172.Xr qmath 3 .
173.Sh RETURN VALUES
174The
175.Fn Q_SIGNED ,
176.Fn Q_LTZ ,
177.Fn Q_PRECEQ ,
178.Fn Q_QLTQ ,
179.Fn Q_QLEQ ,
180.Fn Q_QGTQ ,
181.Fn Q_QGEQ ,
182.Fn Q_QEQ ,
183.Fn Q_QNEQ
184and
185.Fn Q_OFLOW
186functions return expressions that evaluate to boolean
187.Vt true
188or
189.Vt false .
190.Pp
191.Fn Q_RELPREC
192returns the relative precision difference as a signed integer.
193.Sh SEE ALSO
194.Xr errno 2 ,
195.Xr qmath 3 ,
196.Xr stdint 7
197.Sh HISTORY
198The
199.Xr qmath 3
200functions first appeared in
201.Fx 13.0 .
202.Sh AUTHORS
203.An -nosplit
204The
205.Xr qmath 3
206functions and this manual page were written by
207.An Lawrence Stewart Aq Mt lstewart@FreeBSD.org
208and sponsored by Netflix, Inc.
209