ABS(3) Linux Programmer's Manual ABS(3)

NAME
       abs, labs, llabs, imaxabs - compute the absolute value of an integer

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       int abs(int j);
       long int labs(long int j);
       long long int llabs(long long int j);

       #include 

       intmaxt imaxabs(intmaxt j);

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

       llabs():
           XOPENSOURCE >= 600 || ISOC99SOURCE ||
           POSIXCSOURCE >= 200112L;
           or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION
       The abs() function computes the absolute value of the integer  argument
       j.   The  labs(),  llabs() and imaxabs() functions compute the absolute
       value of the argument j of the appropriate integer type for  the  func‐
       tion.

RETURN VALUE
       Returns  the absolute value of the integer argument, of the appropriate
       integer type for the function.

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

       ┌───────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface          │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │abs(), labs(),     │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       │llabs(), imaxabs() │               │         │
       └───────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C99.   C89  only  includes  the  abs()  and
       labs()  functions;  the  functions  llabs() and imaxabs() were added in
       C99.

NOTES
       Trying to take the absolute value of the most negative integer  is  not
       defined.

       The llabs() function is included in glibc since version 2.0, but is not
       in libc5 or libc4.  The imaxabs() function is included in  glibc  since
       version 2.1.1.

       For   llabs()   to   be   declared,  it  may  be  necessary  to  define
       ISOC99SOURCE or ISOC9XSOURCE (depending on the  version  of  glibc)
       before including any standard headers.

       GCC  handles abs() and labs() as built-in functions.  GCC 3.0 also han‐
       dles llabs() and imaxabs() as built-ins.

SEE ALSO
       cabs(3), ceil(3), fabs(3), floor(3), rint(3)

COLOPHON
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