1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information 6.\" Processing Systems. 7.\" 8.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 9.\" 10.\" @(#)labs.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 11.\" 12.Dd 13.Dt LABS 3 14.Os 15.Sh NAME 16.Nm labs 17.Nd return the absolute value of a long integer 18.Sh SYNOPSIS 19.Fd #include <stdlib.h> 20.Ft long 21.Fn labs "long j" 22.Sh DESCRIPTION 23The 24.Fn labs 25function 26returns the absolute value of the long integer 27.Ar j . 28.Sh SEE ALSO 29.Xr abs 3 , 30.Xr floor 3 , 31.Xr cabs 3 , 32.Xr math 3 33.Sh STANDARDS 34The 35.Fn labs 36function 37conforms to 38.St -ansiC . 39.Sh BUGS 40The absolute value of the most negative integer remains negative. 41