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Jordan K. Hubbard 3a8617a83f J.T. Conklin's latest version of the Sun math library.
-- Begin comments from J.T. Conklin:
The most significant improvement is the addition of "float" versions
of the math functions that take float arguments, return floats, and do
all operations in floating point.  This doesn't help (performance)
much on the i386, but they are still nice to have.

The float versions were orginally done by Cygnus' Ian Taylor when
fdlibm was integrated into the libm we support for embedded systems.
I gave Ian a copy of my libm as a starting point since I had already
fixed a lot of bugs & problems in Sun's original code.  After he was
done, I cleaned it up a bit and integrated the changes back into my
libm.
-- End comments

Reviewed by:	jkh
Submitted by:	jtc
1994-08-19 09:40:01 +00:00

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.Dd May 2, 1991
.Dt FABS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm fabs
.Nd floating-point absolute value function
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <math.h>
.Ft double
.Fn fabs "double x"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn fabs
function computes the absolute value of a floating-point number
.Fa x .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn fabs
function returns the absolute value of
.Fa x .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr abs 3 ,
.Xr ceil 3 ,
.Xr floor 3 ,
.Xr rint 3 ,
.Xr ieee 3 ,
.Xr math 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn fabs
function conforms to
.St -ansiC .