copysign - Man Page

Math library (libm, -lm)

#include <math.h>

double copysign(double x, double y);
float copysignf(float x, float y);
long double copysignl(long double x, long double y);

copysign(), copysignf(), copysignl():

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
        || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
        || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

These functions return a value whose absolute value matches that of x, but whose sign bit matches that of y.

For example, copysign(42.0, -1.0) and copysign(-42.0, -1.0) both return -42.0.

On success, these functions return a value whose magnitude is taken from x and whose sign is taken from y.

If x is a NaN, a NaN with the sign bit of y is returned.

No errors occur.

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

On architectures where the floating-point formats are not IEEE 754 compliant, these functions may treat a negative zero as positive.

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

This function is defined in IEC 559 (and the appendix with recommended functions in IEEE 754/IEEE 854).

C99, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD.

signbit(3)

signbit(3).

The man pages copysignf(3) and copysignl(3) are aliases of copysign(3).