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28.Dd July 8, 2018
29.Dt Q_SIGNED 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm Q_SIGNED ,
33.Nm Q_LTZ ,
34.Nm Q_PRECEQ ,
35.Nm Q_QLTQ ,
36.Nm Q_QLEQ ,
37.Nm Q_QGTQ ,
38.Nm Q_QGEQ ,
39.Nm Q_QEQ ,
40.Nm Q_QNEQ ,
41.Nm Q_OFLOW ,
42.Nm Q_RELPREC
43.Nd fixed-point math comparison and logic functions
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In sys/qmath.h
46.Ft bool
47.Fn Q_SIGNED "NTYPE n"
48.Ft bool
49.Fn Q_LTZ "NTYPE n"
50.Ft bool
51.Fn Q_PRECEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
52.Ft bool
53.Fn Q_QLTQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
54.Ft bool
55.Fn Q_QLEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
56.Ft bool
57.Fn Q_QGTQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
58.Ft bool
59.Fn Q_QGEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
60.Ft bool
61.Fn Q_QEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
62.Ft bool
63.Fn Q_QNEQ "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
64.Ft bool
65.Fn Q_OFLOW "QTYPE q" "ITYPE iv"
66.Ft int
67.Fn Q_RELPREC "QTYPE a" "QTYPE b"
68.Sh DESCRIPTION
69.Fn Q_SIGNED
70returns
71.Ft true
72if the numeric data type passed in as
73.Fa n
74is signed, or
75.Ft false
76otherwise.
77.Pp
78.Fn Q_LTZ
79returns
80.Ft true
81if the numeric value
82passed in as
83.Fa n
84is negative
85.Pq requires types which use the MSB as the sign bit ,
86or
87.Ft false
88otherwise.
89.Pp
90.Fn Q_PRECEQ
91returns
92.Ft true
93if the number of
94.Fa a
95and
96.Fa b
97fractional bits is the same,
98.Ft false
99otherwise.
100.Pp
101The
102.Fn Q_QLTQ ,
103.Fn Q_QLEQ ,
104.Fn Q_QGTQ ,
105.Fn Q_QGEQ ,
106.Fn Q_QEQ
107and
108.Fn Q_QNEQ
109functions compare two Q numbers, returning
110.Ft true
111if
112.Fa a
113is less than, less than or equal to, greater than, greater than or equal to,
114equal to, or not equal to
115.Fa b
116respectively, or
117.Ft false
118otherwise.
119The integral and fractional values are used to perform the comparison, without
120explicit concern for the underlying number of integer versus fractional bits.
121.Pp
122.Fn Q_OFLOW
123returns
124.Ft true
125if integer value
126.Fa iv
127cannot be stored in
128.Fa q
129without truncation, or false otherwise.
130.Pp
131.Fn Q_RELPREC
132returns the relative precision of
133.Fa a
134versus
135.Fa b .
136In terms of
137.Em Qm.n
138notation, this function returns the difference between the
139.Em n
140values of
141.Fa a
142and
143.Fa b .
144For example, a return value of +4 means that
145.Fa a
146has an additional 4 bits of fractional precision compared to
147.Fa b .
148.Pp
149All of those functions operate on
150the following data types:
151.Vt s8q_t ,
152.Vt u8q_t ,
153.Vt s16q_t ,
154.Vt u16q_t ,
155.Vt s32q_t ,
156.Vt u32q_t ,
157.Vt s64q_t ,
158and
159.Vt u64q_t ,
160which are referred to generically as
161.Fa QTYPE .
162The
163.Fa ITYPE
164refers to the
165.Xr stdint 7
166integer types.
167.Fa NTYPE
168is used to refer to any numeric type and is therefore a superset of
169.Fa QTYPE
170and
171.Fa ITYPE .
172.Pp
173For more details, see
174.Xr qmath 3 .
175.Sh RETURN VALUES
176The
177.Fn Q_SIGNED ,
178.Fn Q_LTZ ,
179.Fn Q_PRECEQ ,
180.Fn Q_QLTQ ,
181.Fn Q_QLEQ ,
182.Fn Q_QGTQ ,
183.Fn Q_QGEQ ,
184.Fn Q_QEQ ,
185.Fn Q_QNEQ
186and
187.Fn Q_OFLOW
188functions return expressions that evaluate to boolean
189.Vt true
190or
191.Vt false .
192.Pp
193.Fn Q_RELPREC
194returns the relative precision difference as a signed integer.
195.Sh SEE ALSO
196.Xr errno 2 ,
197.Xr qmath 3 ,
198.Xr stdint 7
199.Sh HISTORY
200The
201.Xr qmath 3
202functions first appeared in
203.Fx 13.0 .
204.Sh AUTHORS
205.An -nosplit
206The
207.Xr qmath 3
208functions and this manual page were written by
209.An Lawrence Stewart Aq Mt lstewart@FreeBSD.org
210and sponsored by Netflix, Inc.
211