FMIN

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2013-09-17
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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

 

Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

The fmin(), fminf(), and fminl() functions are thread-safe.  

CONFORMING TO

C99, POSIX.1-2001.  

SEE ALSO

fmax(3)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
VERSIONS
ATTRIBUTES
Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

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