ilogb, ilogbf, ilogbl - get integer exponent of a floating-point value
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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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│ ilogb(), ilogbf(), ilogbl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Bugs
Before glibc 2.16, the following bugs existed in the glibc implementation of these functions:
• The domain error case where x is 0 or a NaN did not cause errno to be set or (on some architectures)
raise a floating-point exception.
• The domain error case where x is an infinity did not cause errno to be set or raise a floating-point
exception.
Description
These functions return the exponent part of their argument as a signed integer. When no error occurs,
these functions are equivalent to the corresponding logb(3) functions, cast to int.
Errors
See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these
functions.
The following errors can occur:
Domain error: x is 0 or a NaN
An invalid floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised, and errno is set to EDOM (but see
BUGS).
Domain error: x is an infinity
An invalid floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised, and errno is set to EDOM (but see
BUGS).
History
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
Library
Math library (libm, -lm)
Name
ilogb, ilogbf, ilogbl - get integer exponent of a floating-point value
Return Value
On success, these functions return the exponent of x, as a signed integer.
If x is zero, then a domain error occurs, and the functions return FP_ILOGB0.
If x is a NaN, then a domain error occurs, and the functions return FP_ILOGBNAN.
If x is negative infinity or positive infinity, then a domain error occurs, and the functions return
INT_MAX.
See Also
log(3), logb(3), significand(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 ilogb(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<math.h>intilogb(doublex);intilogbf(floatx);intilogbl(longdoublex); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): ilogb(): _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE ilogbf(), ilogbl(): _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
