HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALL

 

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Common mathematical functions

Functions
Basic operations
abslabsllabsimaxabs (C99) fabs divldivlldivimaxdiv (C99) fmod	remainder (C99) remquo (C99) fma (C99) fmax (C99) fmin (C99) fdim (C99) nannanfnanl (C99)(C99)(C99)
Exponential functions
exp exp2 (C99) expm1 (C99)	log log10 log1p (C99) log2 (C99)
Power functions
sqrt cbrt (C99)	hypot (C99) pow
Trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
sin cos tan asin acos atan atan2	sinh cosh tanh asinh (C99) acosh (C99) atanh (C99)
Error and gamma functions
erf (C99) erfc (C99)	lgamma (C99) tgamma (C99)
Nearest integer floating point operations
ceil floor roundlroundllround (C99)(C99)(C99)	trunc (C99) nearbyint (C99) rintlrintllrint (C99)(C99)(C99)
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ldexp scalbnscalbln (C99)(C99) ilogb (C99) logb (C99)	frexp modf nextafternexttoward (C99)(C99) copysign (C99)
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fpclassify (C99) isfinite (C99) isinf (C99) isnan (C99) isnormal (C99) signbit (C99)	isgreater (C99) isgreaterequal (C99) isless (C99) islessequal (C99) islessgreater (C99) isunordered (C99)
Macro constants
HUGE_VALFHUGE_VALHUGE_VALL (C99)(C99)	FP_NORMALFP_SUBNORMALFP_ZEROFP_INFINITEFP_NAN (C99)(C99)(C99)(C99)(C99)

 

Defined in header <math.h>
#define HUGE_VALF /*implementation defined*/		(since C99)
#define HUGE_VAL  /*implementation defined*/
#define HUGE_VALL /*implementation defined*/		(since C99)

The HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VAL and HUGE_VALL macros expand to positive floating point constant expressions which compare equal to the values returned by floating-point functions and operators in case of overflow (see math_errhandling).

Constant	Explanation
HUGE_VALF	Expands to positive float expression that indicates overflow
HUGE_VAL	Expands to positive double expression that indicates overflow, not necessarily representable as a float
HUGE_VALL	Expands to positive long double expression that indicates overflow, not necessarily representable as a float or double

On implementations that support floating-point infinities, these macros always expand to the positive infinities of float, double, and long double, respectively.

Example

Run this code

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
    double result = 1.0/0.0;
    printf("1.0/0.0 = %f\n", result);
    if (result == HUGE_VAL)
        puts("1.0/0.0 == HUGE_VAL\n");
}

Possible output:

1.0/0.0 = inf
1.0/0.0 == HUGE_VAL

• C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.12/3 HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL (p: 231)

• F.10/2 HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL (p: 517)

• C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.12/3 HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL (p: 212)

• F.9/2 HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL (p: 454)

• C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):

• 4.5 HUGE_VAL

See also

INFINITY (C99)	evaluates to positive infinity or the value guaranteed to overflow a float (macro constant)
C++ documentation for HUGE_VAL