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- <h3 class="section">1.31 <code>isgreater</code>, <code>isgreaterequal</code>, <code>isless</code>, <code>islessequal</code>, <code>islessgreater</code>, and <code>isunordered</code>—comparison macros</h3>
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- <p><strong>Synopsis</strong>
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- <pre class="example">#include <math.h>
- int isgreater(real-floating <var>x</var>, real-floating <var>y</var>);
- int isgreaterequal(real-floating <var>x</var>, real-floating <var>y</var>);
- int isless(real-floating <var>x</var>, real-floating <var>y</var>);
- int islessequal(real-floating <var>x</var>, real-floating <var>y</var>);
- int islessgreater(real-floating <var>x</var>, real-floating <var>y</var>);
- int isunordered(real-floating <var>x</var>, real-floating <var>y</var>);
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- <p><strong>Description</strong><br>
- <code>isgreater</code>, <code>isgreaterequal</code>, <code>isless</code>, <code>islessequal</code>,
- <code>islessgreater</code>, and <code>isunordered</code> are macros defined for use in
- comparing floating-point numbers without raising any floating-point
- exceptions.
- </p>
- <p>The relational operators (i.e. <, >, <=, and >=) support the usual mathematical
- relationships between numeric values. For any ordered pair of numeric
- values exactly one of the relationships–less, greater, and equal–is
- true. Relational operators may raise the "invalid" floating-point
- exception when argument values are NaNs. For a NaN and a numeric value, or
- for two NaNs, just the unordered relationship is true (i.e., if one or both
- of the arguments a NaN, the relationship is called unordered). The specified
- macros are quiet (non floating-point exception raising) versions of the
- relational operators, and other comparison macros that facilitate writing
- efficient code that accounts for NaNs without suffering the "invalid"
- floating-point exception. In the synopses shown, "real-floating" indicates
- that the argument is an expression of real floating type.
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- <p>Please note that saying that the macros do not raise floating-point
- exceptions, it is referring to the function that they are performing. It
- is certainly possible to give them an expression which causes an exception.
- For example:
- </p><dl compact="compact">
- <dt><code>NaN < 1.0</code></dt>
- <dd><p>causes an "invalid" exception,
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- <dt><code>isless(NaN, 1.0)</code></dt>
- <dd><p>does not, and
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- <dt><code>isless(NaN*0., 1.0)</code></dt>
- <dd><p>causes an exception due to the "NaN*0.", but not from the
- resultant reduced comparison of isless(NaN, 1.0).
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- <p><strong>Returns</strong><br>
- No floating-point exceptions are raised for any of the macros.<br>
- The <code>isgreater</code> macro returns the value of (x) > (y).<br>
- The <code>isgreaterequal</code> macro returns the value of (x) >= (y).<br>
- The <code>isless</code> macro returns the value of (x) < (y).<br>
- The <code>islessequal</code> macro returns the value of (x) <= (y).<br>
- The <code>islessgreater</code> macro returns the value of (x) < (y) || (x) > (y).<br>
- The <code>isunordered</code> macro returns 1 if either of its arguments is NaN and 0 otherwise.
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- <p><strong>Portability</strong><br>
- C99, POSIX.
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