fminl (3)

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Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
    <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

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NAME

fmin, fminf, fminl - determine minimum of two floating-point numbers

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double fmin(double x, double y);
float fminf(float x, float y);
long double fminl(long double x, long double y);

Link with -lm.

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

fmin(), fminf(), fminl():

_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION

These functions return the lesser value of x and y.

RETURN VALUE

These functions return the minimum of x and y.
If one argument is a NaN, the other argument is returned.
If both arguments are NaN, a NaN is returned.

ERRORS

No errors occur.

VERSIONS

These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
fmin(), fminf(), fminl()	Thread safety	MT-Safe

CONFORMING TO

C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

SEE ALSO

fmax(3)

COLOPHON

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