infinity(3)

NAME#

INFINITY, NAN, HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL - floating-point constants

LIBRARY#

Math library (libm)

SYNOPSIS#

#define _ISOC99_SOURCE\n      /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
\n#include <math.h>

INFINITY

NAN

HUGE_VAL\n
\nHUGE_VALF\n
\nHUGE_VALL

DESCRIPTION#

The macro INFINITY expands to a float constant representing positive infinity.

The macro NAN expands to a float constant representing a quiet NaN (when supported). A quiet NaN is a NaN ("not-a-number") that does not raise exceptions when it is used in arithmetic. The opposite is a signaling NaN. See IEC 60559:1989.

The macros HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL expand to constants of types double, float, and long double, respectively, that represent a large positive value, possibly positive infinity.

STANDARDS#

C11.

HISTORY#

C99.

On a glibc system, the macro HUGE_VAL is always available. Availability of the NAN macro can be tested using #ifdef NAN, and similarly for INFINITY, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL. They will be defined by <math.h> if _ISOC99_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is defined, or __STDC_VERSION__ is defined and has a value not less than 199901L.

SEE ALSO#

fpclassify(3), math_error(7)