drem, dremf, dreml, remainder, remainderf, remainderl - floating-point remainder function
#include <math.h>
/* The C99 versions */
double remainder(double x, double y);
float remainderf(float x, float y);
long double remainderl(long double x, long double y);
/* Obsolete synonyms */
double drem(double x, double y);
float dremf(float x, float y);
long double dreml(long double x, long double y);
Link with -lm
.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
remainder():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
remainderf(), remainderl():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
/* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
These functions compute the remainder of dividing x
by
y
. The return value is x
-n
*y
, where
n
is the value x / y
, rounded to the nearest integer.
If the absolute value of x
-n
*y
is 0.5,
n
is chosen to be even.
These functions are unaffected by the current rounding mode (see fenv(3)).
The drem() function does precisely the same thing.
On success, these functions return the floating-point remainder,
x
-n
*y
. If the return value is 0, it has the
sign of x
.
If x
or y
is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If x
is an infinity, and y
is not a NaN, a domain
error occurs, and a NaN is returned.
If y
is zero, and x
is not a NaN, a domain error
occurs, and a NaN is returned.
The call "remainder(29.0, 3.0)" returns -1.
See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions.
The following errors can occur:
x
is an infinity and y
is not a
NaNerrno
is set to EDOM (but see BUGS). An
invalid floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is
raised.
These functions do not set errno
for this case.
y
is zeroerrno
is set to EDOM. An invalid
floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
drem(),
dremf(), dreml(), remainder(), remainderf(), remainderl() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe |
The functions remainder(), remainderf(), and remainderl() are specified in C99, POSIX.1-2001, and POSIX.1-2008.
The function drem() is from 4.3BSD. The
float
and long double
variants
dremf() and dreml() exist on some
systems, such as Tru64 and glibc2. Avoid the use of these functions in
favor of remainder() etc.
Before glibc 2.15, the call
remainder(nan(""), 0);
returned a NaN, as expected, but wrongly caused a domain error. Since glibc 2.15, a silent NaN (i.e., no domain error) is returned.
Before glibc 2.15, errno
was not set to
EDOM for the domain error that occurs when x
is an infinity and y
is not a NaN.
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