ISGREATER(3P)

💖 ISGREATER(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to isgreater, a whole POSIX Programmer's Manual page, and honestly? it's giving quiet-float energy and i'm obsessed 🫶

🚨 PROLOG 🚨

so like, real talk first: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. no cap. 💀

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✨ NAME ✨

isgreater — test if x greater than y

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <math.h>

int isgreater(real-floating x, real-floating y);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional — this volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard. periodt. ✨

The isgreater() macro shall determine whether its first argument is greater than its second argument. The value of isgreater(x, y) shall be equal to (x) > (y) — but unlike (x) > (y), isgreater(x, y) shall not raise the invalid floating-point exception when x and y are unordered. that's the whole point, bestie, that's the moment 🎀

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🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

Upon successful completion, the isgreater() macro shall return the value of (x) > (y).

If x or y is NaN, 0 shall be returned. yes, zero, even though NaN is out here being unordered and chaotic 🙈

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💀 ERRORS 💀

No errors are defined. not a single one. iconic behavior honestly.

The following sections are informative.

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

None. (yes bestie, literally none, we move.)

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🦋 APPLICATION USAGE 🦋

The relational and equality operators support the usual mathematical relationships between numeric values. For any ordered pair of numeric values, exactly one of the relationships (less, greater, and equal) is true. Relational operators may raise the invalid floating-point exception when argument values are NaNs. For a NaN and a numeric value, or for two NaNs, just the unordered relationship is true. ⚠️

This macro is a quiet (non-floating-point exception raising) version of a relational operator. It facilitates writing efficient code that accounts for NaNs without suffering the invalid floating-point exception. chef's kiss 💅

In the SYNOPSIS section, real-floating indicates that the argument shall be an expression of real-floating type. iykyk 🌈

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👑 RATIONALE 👑

None. nothing to justify, it just slays.

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🌈 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 🌈

None. the future is bright and unchanging.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• isgreaterequal()
• isless()
• islessequal()
• islessgreater()
• isunordered()

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <math.h>

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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