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29.Dd February 12, 2003
30.Dt ISGREATER 3
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm isgreater , isgreaterequal , isless , islessequal ,
34.Nm islessgreater , isunordered
35.Nd "compare two floating-point numbers"
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libc
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In math.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn isgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
42.Ft int
43.Fn isgreaterequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
44.Ft int
45.Fn isless "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
46.Ft int
47.Fn islessequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
48.Ft int
49.Fn islessgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
50.Ft int
51.Fn isunordered "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53Each of the macros
54.Fn isgreater ,
55.Fn isgreaterequal ,
56.Fn isless ,
57.Fn islessequal ,
58and
59.Fn islessgreater
60take arguments
61.Fa x
62and
63.Fa y
64and return a non-zero value if and only if its nominal
65relation on
66.Fa x
67and
68.Fa y
69is true.
70These macros always return zero if either
71argument is not a number (NaN), but unlike the corresponding C
72operators, they never raise a floating point exception.
73.Pp
74The
75.Fn isunordered
76macro takes arguments
77.Fa x
78and
79.Fa y
80and returns non-zero if and only if neither
81.Fa x
82nor
83.Fa y
84are NaNs.
85For any pair of floating-point values, one
86of the relationships (less, greater, equal, unordered) holds.
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr fpclassify 3 ,
89.Xr math 3 ,
90.Xr signbit 3
91.Sh STANDARDS
92The
93.Fn isgreater ,
94.Fn isgreaterequal ,
95.Fn isless ,
96.Fn islessequal ,
97.Fn islessgreater ,
98and
99.Fn isunordered
100macros conform to
101.St -isoC-99 .
102.Sh HISTORY
103The relational macros described above first appeared in
104.Nx 5.0 .
105