logb - get exponent of a floating-point value

NAME LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE ERRORS ATTRIBUTES STANDARDS HISTORY SEE ALSO

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);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

logb():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

logbf(), logbl():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

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.

4.3BSD (see IEEE.3 in the 4.3BSD manual).