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25.Dd July 18, 2004
26.Dt SIGNBIT 3
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm signbit
30.Nd "determine whether a floating-point number's sign is negative"
31.Sh LIBRARY
32.Lb libm
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.In math.h
35.Ft int
36.Fn signbit "real-floating x"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Fn signbit
40macro takes an argument of
41.Fa x
42and returns non-zero if the value of its sign is negative, otherwise 0.
43.Sh SEE ALSO
44.Xr fpclassify 3 ,
45.Xr math 3
46.Sh STANDARDS
47The
48.Fn signbit
49macro conforms to
50.St -isoC-99 .
51.Sh HISTORY
52The
53.Fn signbit
54macro was added in
55.Fx 5.1 .
56