fabs, fabsf, fabsl - absolute value of floating-point number
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ fabs(), fabsf(), fabsl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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Description
These functions return the absolute value of the floating-point number x.
Errors
No errors occur.
History
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
Library
Math library (libm, -lm)
Name
fabs, fabsf, fabsl - absolute value of floating-point number
Return Value
These functions return the absolute value of x.
If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If x is -0, +0 is returned.
If x is negative infinity or positive infinity, positive infinity is returned.
See Also
abs(3), cabs(3), ceil(3), floor(3), labs(3), rint(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 fabs(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<math.h>doublefabs(doublex);floatfabsf(floatx);longdoublefabsl(longdoublex); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): fabsf(), fabsl(): _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
