'\" t .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft .\" .\" References consulted: .\" Linux libc source code .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms .\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) .\" .TH modf 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" .SH NAME modf, modff, modfl \- extract signed integral and fractional values from floating-point number .SH LIBRARY Math library .RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .PP .BI "double modf(double " x ", double *" iptr ); .BI "float modff(float " x ", float *" iptr ); .BI "long double modfl(long double " x ", long double *" iptr ); .fi .PP .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE .PP .BR modff (), .BR modfl (): .nf _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE .fi .SH DESCRIPTION These functions break the argument .I x into an integral part and a fractional part, each of which has the same sign as .IR x . The integral part is stored in the location pointed to by .IR iptr . .SH RETURN VALUE These functions return the fractional part of .IR x . .PP If .I x is a NaN, a NaN is returned, and .I *iptr is set to a NaN. .PP If .I x is positive infinity (negative infinity), +0 (\-0) is returned, and .I *iptr is set to positive infinity (negative infinity). .SH ERRORS No errors occur. .SH ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see .BR attributes (7). .TS allbox; lbx lb lb l l l. Interface Attribute Value T{ .na .nh .BR modf (), .BR modff (), .BR modfl () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE .sp 1 .SH STANDARDS C11, POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY C99, POSIX.1-2001. .PP The variant returning .I double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89. .SH SEE ALSO .BR frexp (3), .BR ldexp (3)