NAME¶

logb, logbf, logbl - get exponent of a floating-point value

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <math.h> double logb(double x); float logbf(float x); long double logbl(long double x); Link with -lm.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
logb(): logbf(), logbl():

DESCRIPTION¶

These functions extract the exponent from the internal floating-point representation of x and return it as a floating-point value. The integer constant FLT_RADIX, defined in <float.h>, indicates the radix used for the system's floating-point representation. If FLT_RADIX is 2, logb(x) is equal to floor(log2(x)), except that it is probably faster. If x is subnormal, logb() returns the exponent x would have if it were normalized.

RETURN VALUE¶

On success, these functions return the exponent of x. If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned. If x is zero, then a pole error occurs, and the functions return -HUGE_VAL, -HUGE_VALF, or -HUGE_VALL, respectively. If x is negative infinity or positive infinity, then positive infinity is returned.

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:

Pole error: x is 0

A divide-by-zero floating-point exception (FE_DIVBYZERO) is raised.

These functions do not set errno.

ATTRIBUTES¶

Multithreading (see pthreads(7))¶

The logb(), logbf(), and logbl() functions are thread-safe.

CONFORMING TO¶

C99, POSIX.1-2001.

SEE ALSO¶

ilogb(3), log(3)

COLOPHON¶

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