NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     imaxabs -- returns absolute value

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <inttypes.h>

     intmax_t
     imaxabs(intmax_t j);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The imaxabs() function returns the absolute value of j.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     abs(3), fabs(3), hypot(3), labs(3), llabs(3), math(3)

STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The imaxabs() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'').

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The imaxabs() function first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The absolute value of the most negative integer remains negative.


FreeBSD 5.2.1		       November 14, 2001		 FreeBSD 5.2.1